FAMILIAR WORDS. 



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FAMILIAR in their mouths as Household WORDS. 

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PREFACE. 



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v^-— I "i^cz HE present Edition of '•Familiar Words" 
SnSvI t?5.^ i s? i n many respects, a new work. It has 
been partly re-arranged, some thousands of 
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while the chief value of a work like the present to the scholar 
and literary man is accuracy.it would he well, "before his book 
were pronounced inaccurate, that any quotation in dispute 
should he carefully verified hy an authoritative edition, 
since a multitude of passages are habitually misquoted. 
A very few instances will suffice : Pope's " Catch ere she 
change the Cynthia of this minute" becomes u of the 
minute;" "thy modesty's a candle to thy merit" has 
been changed into "flambeau;" and Milton's -'fresh 
woods and pastures new" is habitually quoted as " fresh 
fields." From inattention to this rule, many well-meaning 
critics tried to amend the first edition needlessly, and with 
such positive assertion as caused the trouble of frequent 
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have been in the present edition excised, and others sub- 
stituted from English writers of an earlier elate, whom 
the endeavour to include contemporary authors will hardly 
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of the editor himself, or those more excusably made by 
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which can never be considered complete ; — these together 
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"many quotations and verified others ; to Mr. Edward 
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and Mr. Bell's British Poets, and to many other standard 
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hearty appreciation with which the First Edition, with 
all its imperfections, was" welcomed and received. 

June, 1866. 




LIST OF AUTHORS QUOTED.* 



|ggyg|DDISON, Jo SE ph 
*^JMwL Aird, Thomas 
Iw^^gS Akenside, Mark 
^^x^M Aquinas, Thomas 
Augustine, Saixt 
Austin, Alfred 
Aytoun, Professor 

Bacon, Francis 

Bailey, Haynes 

Bailey, P. J. 

Ball. John 

Ballantyne, James 

Banks, John 

Barbauld, Mrs. 

Barham, Key. Eichard Harris 

Barxfield, E. 

Barrett, Elizabeth 

Barry, M. J. 

Basse, William 

Baxter, Eichard 

Beattie, James 

Beaumont, Francis 



Beddoes, Thomas Loyell 
Bextham, Jeremy 
Berkeley, Bishop 
Berry, Dorothy 

BlCKERSTAFF, ISAAC 

Blacklock, Thomas 
Blackstone. Sir TTilliam 
Blair, Eobert 
Blamire, Miss 
Bloomfield, Eobert 
Bodley, Sir Thomas 
Boileau, Nicholas 
Boltngbroke, Henry St. John 
Bonar, Dr. 
Booth, Henry 
borbonius, xlcholas 
Boswell, Sir Alexander 
Boswell, J'mes 
Boyd, Zachary 
Bramstox, Eey. James 
Breretox, J axe 
Broadhurst, Mr. 
Brooke, Lord 



* To give some idea of the scope of the present work, the Editor has 
ventured to prefix a List of the Authors he has quoted from. Space would 
not allow of his appending a list of editions and dates; nor would it, indeed, 
have answered any particular object to have done so. In the recognition of 
Bishop Still as the author of 4i Gammer Gurton's Needle," of Beaumont and 
Fletcher as the authors of the " Two Noble Kinsmen, " and of A Kempis as 
the author of the "Imitation of Christ," the Editor has thought it as veil 
to agree. The present work, of course, could not enter upon the discussion of 
these and such like claims. 



LIST OF AUTHORS QUOTED. 



Broome, William 

Brough, R. B. 

Brougham, Lord 

Brown, John 

Brown, Tom 

Browne, Dr. John 

Browne, Sir Thomas 

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 

Browning, Robert 

Bryant, W. C. 

Buggy, K. T. 

Bull, Dr. John 

Bunyan, John 

Buren, President Van 

Burke, Edmund 

Burns, Robert 

Burton, Rev. Robert 

Butler, Samuel 

Byrom, John 

Byron, Lord 

Campbell, Thomas 
Canning, George 
Carew, Thomas 
Carey, Henry 
Carlyle, Thomas 
Carpenter, J. E. 
Cary, Rey. Henry Francis 
Cawthorn, James 
Centliyre, Mrs. 
Chalmers, Dr. 
Chapman, George 
Charron, Peter 
Chaucer, Geoffrey 
Churchill, Charles 

ClBBER, COLLEY 

Cicero, M. Tullius 
Clare, John 
Coke, Sir E. 
Coleridge, Samuel 
Collins, William 
Colman, George 
Congreye, William 



Constable, Henry 
Cook, Eliza 
Cotton, Charles 
Cotton, Nathaniel 
Cowley, Abraham 
Cowper, William 
Crabbe, Rey. George 
Cranch, C. P. 
Crashaw, Richard 
Croker, J. C. 
Croly, Rey. George 
Cunningham, Allan 
Cyprian, Bp. of Carthage 

Dayis, Tom 
Daniel, Samuel 
Dante, Alighieri 
Darwin, Erasmus 
Defoe, Daniel 
Dekker, Thomas 
Denham, Sir John 
Dibdin, Charles 
Dickens, Charles 
Dickenson, J. 

Dionysius of Halicarnassfs 
Disraeli, Benjamin 
D' Israeli, Isaac 
Doddridge, Phtlip 
Dodsley, Robert 
Donne, Dr. John 
Drayton, Michael 
Dryden, John 
Duck, Stephen 
Dufferin, Lady 
Dyer, Rey. John 

Elliot, Ebenezer 
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 
Emmet, Robert 
Erasmus, Desiderius 

Fairfax, Edward 
Falconer, William 



LIST OF AUTHORS QUOTED. 



Farquhar, Thomas 

Fenelon, F. de S. de la Mothe 

Fielding, Henry 

Flatman, Thomas 

Fletcher, Andrew, of Saltoun 

Fletcher, John 

Fletcher, Phineas 

Ford, John 

Foote, Samuel 

Fouche, Joseph 

fournier 

Francis the Ftrst 

Francis (Trans, of Horace) 

Franklin, Benjamin 

Friswell, Hain 

frere, j. hookham 

Fuller^ Thomas 

Garrick, David 

Garth, Sir Samuel 

Gay, John 

Gifford, Key. Kichard 

Gifford, William 

Goethe, John Wolfgang von 

Goldsmith, Oliver 

Grahame, Rev. James 

Gray, Thomas 

Green, Matthew 

Greene, A. G. 

Greene, Richard 

Greyille, Fulke 

Greyille, Mrs. 

Grimwald, A. 

Habington, William 
Hall, Bishop 
Hall, Robert 
Halleck, T. 
Hare, Julius Charles 
Heber, Reginald 
Hemans, Felicia 
Heming, J. 
Henry, Patrick 



Henry IV. of France 
Herbert, George 
Herrick, Rev. Robert 
Heryey, Rev. James 
Hervey, T. K. 
Hesiod 

Heyward, John 
Heywood, Thomas 
Hill, Aaron 
Hobbes, Thomas 
Holcroft, Thomas 
Holmes, Oliver Wendell 
Home, Rev. John 
Hood, Thomas 
Hooker, Richard 
Hoole, John 
Horace 
Horne, R, H. 
Hugo, Herman 
Hume, Joseph 
Hunt, Leigh 
Hurd, Richard 

Inchbald, Mrs. 
Ingram, Rev. J. Kells 
Ireland, Samuel W. J. 
Irving, Washington 

James, G. P. R. 
Jerrold, Douglas 
Johnson, Dr. 
Jones, Sir William 
Jonson, Ben 

Keats, John 
Keble, John 
Kempis, Thomas a 
Key, F. S. 
Killegrew, Thomas 
King, William 

Lamb, Charles 
Landon, Elizabeth 
Landor, Walter Savage 



LIST OF AUTHORS QUOTED. 



Langhorne, Eev. John 

Layard, A. H. 

Le Sage, Alain Rene 

L'E strange, Roger 

Lee, Henry 

Lee, Nathaniel 

LEwrs, Matthew Gregory 

Leyden, John 

Lilly, John 

Lloyd, Charles 

Lloyd, Egbert 

Logan, Eev. John 

Longfellow, H. Wadsworth 

LOYELACE, ElCHARD 

Lowell, James Eussell 
Lowth, William 
Lyttelton, Lord 
Lytton, Sir Edward Bulwer 

Mac Neil, Hector 
Macaulay, Lord 
Mackay, Charles 
Mackintosh, Sir J. 
Madden, Dr. 
Mallet, David 
Manners, Lord John 
Mansfield, Lord 
Marlowe, Christopher 
Marmion, Shakerley 
Marston, John 
Martial 

Martineau, Harriet 
Marvell, Andrew 
Mason, William 
Massinger, Philip 
May, S. 
Mennis, Sir J. 
Meredith, Owen 
Merrick, Eev. Jas. 
Metastasio, Peter 
Mickle, William Julius 

MlDDLETON 

Mill, John Stuart 



Milman 

Milnes, E. M., Lord Houghton 

Milton, John 

Moir, D. M. (Delta) 

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley 

Montague 

Montaigne, Michel de 

Montgomery, James 

Montgomery, Egbert 

Montrose, Marquis of 

Moore, Edward 

Moore, Thomas 

More, Hannah 

More, Sir Thomas 

Morris, Captain , 

Morton, T. 

Motherwell 

Napoleon the First 

Nash, Thomas 

NlCOLL, EOBERT 

Normanby, Marquis of 
Norris, Eev. J. 

O'Hara, Kane 
O'Keefe, John 
Osgood, Frances 
Otway, Thomas 
Overbury, Sir Thomas 
Ovid 

Owen, Robert 
Oxenstierna, Axel 

Paine, Thomas 
Paley, Dr. William 
Parnell, Eev. Dr. Thomas 
Patmore, Coventry 
Payne, John Howard 
Peele, George 
Penn, William 
Percy, Dr. Thomas 
Petronius Arbiter 
Phillips, Edward 



LIST OF AUTHORS QUOTED. 



Piozzt, Mrs. 

Pitt, William 

Planciie', J. R. 

Plutarch 

Poe, Edgar Allah 

PoLLOK, KOBERT 

Pomfret, John 
Pope, Alexander 
Porson, Richard 

PORTEUS, BeILEY 

Powell, Sir John 
Peaed, W. M. 
Priestly, Dr. Joseph 
Pringle, Thomas 
Prior, Matthew 
Procter, B. W. 
Pye, Henry Jambs 

Qcarles, Francis 
Queyedo, Francisco de 
Quincy, Thomas de 

Rabelais, Francois 
Rabutin, Bussy 
Racine, John 
Raleigh, Sir Walter 
Ramsay, Allan 
Reynolds, Frederick 
Richelieu, Cardinal [de 

ROCHEFOUCAULT, FRANCOIS, DuC 

Rochester, John Wilmot, 
Earl of 

Rogers, Samuel 

Roland, Madame 

Roscommon, Wextworth Dil- 
lon 

RovrE, Nicholas 

Rcmbold, Richard 

Russell, Lady Rachel 

Russell, Earl 

Saayedra, Michael de Cer- 

YANTES 



Sackyille, Thomas 
Sayage, Richard 
Schiller, J. C. F. yon 
Scott, Sir Walter 
Sedley, Sir Charles 
Selden, John 
Seneca 

SeVigne*, Madame de 
Sewell, Dr. George 
Shakspeare, William 
Sheffield, Duke of Bucking- 
ham 
Sheil, Richard Lalor 
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 
Shenstone, William 
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 

Shirley, James 

Sidney, Sir Philip 

Skelton, John 

Smart, Christopher {Horace) 

Smith, Edward 

Smith, Horace 

Smith, James 

Smith, Rey. Sydney 

Smollett, Dr. Tobias 

Southern, Thomas 

Southey, Robert 

Southwell, Robert 

Spencer, Hon. W. R. 

Spenser, Edmund 

S pkague, Charles 

Steele, Sir Richard 

Steers, Miss Fanny 

Sterne, Laurence 

Story, Joseph 

Stowe, Mrs. H. B. 

Still, John 

Stirling, Earl of 

Suckling, Sir John 

Surrey, Earl of 

Swift, Dr. Jonathan 

Sylyester, Joshua 



LIST OF AUTHORS QUOTED. 



Tacitus 

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice 

Tarleton, Eichard 

Tasso, Torquato (Fairfax's 
Trans.) 

Tate and Brady 

Taylor, Jeremy 

Taylor, Eev. Henry 

Tennyson, Alfred 

Thackeray, William Make- 
peace 

Theobald, Louis 

Thomson, James 

Thrale, Mrs. 

Tibullus 

Tickell, Thomas 

Tobin, John 

Tourneur, Cyril 

Townley, Rev. James 

Trumbull, T. 

Tuke, Sir Samuel 

Tusser, Thomas 

Udall, Nicholas 
Uhland, John Louis 

Vanbrugh, Sir John 



Varro 

Vaughan, Henry 
Virgil 

Voltaire 

Waller, Edmund 
Walpole, Sir R. 
Walton, Izaak 
Warburton, Thomas 
Watts, Alaric A. 
Watts, Isaac 
Webster, Daniel 
Webster, John 
Whately, Archbishop 
William of Orange 
Wills, W. H. 
Wither, George 
Wolcot, Dr. 
Wolfe, Rev. Charles 
Wordsworth, William 
Wotton, Sir Henry 
Wyatt, Sir Thomas 
Wycherley, William 

Yelverton, Barry 
Young, Dr. Edward 





ABIDE— ABSOLUTE. 

BIDE — Abide with me from morn till eve, 
For without thee I cannot live; 
Abide with me when night is nigh, 
For without thee I dare not die. 

Keble, Christian Year, Evening Hymn, v. 8. 

Above — Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.* 

Pope, Ira, Hor. bk. ii. ep. i. 1. 26. 

Above — Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot 

Which men call Earth. Melton, Comus, 1. 5. 

Abra — Abra teas ready ere I called her name ; 
And, though I called another, Abra came. 

Prior, Solomon, pt. ii. 1. 363. 

Abridgment — An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. 

Goldsmith, On Garrick, Retaliation, 1. 94. 

Absence — In the hope to meet 

Shortly again, and make our absence sweet. 

Ben Jonson, Underwoods. 

Absence — Absence makes the heart grow fonder. f 

Hayxes Bailey, Isle of Beauty. 

Absence — What vigour absence adds to love. 

Platman, Weeping at Parting. 

Absent — Absent in body, but present in spirit. l Cor. v. 3. 

Absolute — How absolute the knave is ! "VTe must speak by the card, 
or equivocation will undo us. Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. l. 

* Dryden, on the death of Lord Hastings, wrote, " Above any Greek or 
Roman name." — Ed. 

t " Though lost to sight, to mem'ry dear," which "seems like the line of a 
song, has eluded as yet "all searchers. " Friends, although absent, are still 
present."— Cicero, On Friendship, c. vii. 
B 



2 ABSTRACT— ACROSS. 

Abstract — They are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2. 

Abundance — Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 

Matt. xii. 34. 

Abuse — Nor aught so good but. strain' d from that fair use, 
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act ii. se. 3. 

Accept — Accept a miracle instead ofwit 3 

See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ. 

Ascribed to Youwg in Mitford's Life. 

Accepted — Behold, now is the accepted time. 2 Cor. vi. 2. 

Accidents — Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, 
Of moving accidents by flood and field, 
Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach. 

Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. 3. 

Accommodated — Accommodated ; that is. when a man is, as they 
say, accommodated: or when a man is. being-, whereby a' may 
be thought to be accommodated; which is an excellent thing. 

Shaks. K. Henri/ IV, part ii. act iii. sc. 2. 

Accoutred — Caesar said to me, ' Darest thou, Cassias, now 

Leap in with me into this angry flood, 

And. swim to yonder point V Upon the word, 

Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, 

And bade him follow. Shaks. Julius Ceesar, act i. sc. 2. 

Aces — Gentlemen whose chariots roll only upon the four aces are 
apt to have a wheel out of order. 

Cibber and Yaxbrugh, Provoked Husband, act ii. 

Aching — "What peaceful hours I once enjoyed ! 
How sweet their memory still ! 
But they have left an aching void 

The world can never rill. Cowpee, Walking with God. 

Acres — In those holy fields, 

Over whose acres walled those blessed feet. 
Which, fourteen hundred years ago. were nail'd 
For our advantage on the bitter cross. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act i. sc. 1. 

Across — In after-dinner talk 

Across the walnuts and the wine. Tenxysox, Miller's Daughter. 



ACT— ACTOR, 3 

Act — Honour and shame from no condition rise ; 
Act well your part : there all the honour lies. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. 193. 

Acting — Between the acting of a dreadful thing 
And the first motion, all the interim is 
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream. 

Shaks. Julius CcBsar, act ii. sc. 1. 

Action — Tou had that action and counteraction which, in the 
natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of 
discordant powers, draw out the harmony of the universe. 

Burke, Speeches. 

Action — What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! 
how infinite in faculty ! in form and moving how express and 
admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how 
like a god ! S ha ks. Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2. 

Action — Think that day lost whose low descending sun 
Views from thy hand no noble action done. 

Miscel. Brit. Mus. Album. 

Action — With devotion's visage 

And pious action we do sugar o'er 
The devil himself. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 1. 

Action — Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. 

Ibid, act iii. sc. 2. 

Actions — Prodigious actions may as well be done 
By weaver's issue as by prince's son. 

Drydex, Absolom and Achitophel, part i. 1. 6ss. 

Actions — Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year. 

Dexham, The Sophy. 

Actions — His actions speak much stronger than my pen. 

Churchill, Candidate, 1. ice. 

Actions — Only the actions of the just 
Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. 

J. Shirley, Contention of Ajax and Ulysses, sc. 3. 

Actor — He loved his friends — forgive this gushing tear ; 
Alas ! I feel / am no actor here. 

Lyttletox, Prologue to Coriolanus by Thomson. 



4 ACTOR— ADORE. 

Actor — As in a theatre the eyes of men, 
After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, 
Are idly bent on him that follows next. 

Shaks. Richard II, act v. sc. 2. 

Acts — That best portion of a good man's life, 
His little, nameless, unremembered acts 
Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth, Tintern Revisited. 

Acts — Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, 
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. 

John Fletcher, Honest Maris Fortune. 

Ada — Ada I sole daughter of my house and heart. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iii. st. 1. 

Adam — When Adam dolve, and Eve span, 
Who was then the gentleman ? 

Hume, Hist, of England, vol. i. chap. xvii. note 8. 

Adam — Adam the goodliest man of men since born 
His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iv. I..323. 

Adam — Consideration, like an angel, came 

And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him. 

Shaks. K. Henry V, act i. sc. 1. 
Adam — In Adam 's fall 

We sinned all. From the New England Primer. 

Adder — They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; which 
will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so 
wisely. Ps. lviii. 4, 5. 

Adieu — So sweetly she bade me adieu, 
I thought that she bade me return. 

W. Shenstone, A Pastoral, part i. 

Admired — You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting, 
With most admired disorder. Shaks. Macbeth, act iii. sc. 4. 

Admitted — But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, 
His faithful dog shall bear him company. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. i. 1. 111. 

Adore — We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, 
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.* 

Pomfret, Verses to his Friend. 

* And dying bless the hand that gave the blow. 

Dryden, /Spanish Friar } act ii. sc. 1. 



ADORED— ADVERSITY. 5 

Adored — As dreadful as the Manichean god, 
Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. 

Cowper, bk. v. Winter Morning Walk. 

Adorn — He left a name, at -which the world grew pale, 
To point a moral or adorn a tale. 

Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, 1. 221. 

Adorn — A poet, naturalist, and historian, who left scarcely any 
style of writing untouched, and touched nothing that he did not 
adorn* Johnson, Epitaph on Goldsmith. 

Adulteries — Give me a look, give me a face, 
That makes simplicity a grace ; 
Eobes loosely flowing, hair as free : 
Such sweet neglect more taketh me 
Than all th' adulteries of art : 
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. 

Bex Joxsox, The Silent Woman, act i. sc. 1. 

Adversary — Oh . . . that mine adversary had written a book.f 

Job xxxi. 35. 

Adversary — Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary, the 
devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may- 
devour. 1 Peter v. 8. 

Adversity — Sweet are the uses of adversity, 
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, 
"Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; J 
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, 
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, 
Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 

Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. 1. 

Adversity — A man I am, cross' d with adversity. 

Shaks. Two Gentlemen of Verona, act iv. sc. 1. 

Adversity — A wretched soul bruised with adversity. 

Shaks. Comedy of Errors, act ii. sc. \. 



* Nullum tetigit quod non omavit. The epitaph written by Johnson is in 
Latin, and is given in Boswell's Life. " Whatever he composed," said Johnson 
at another time, " he did better than any other man could." 

t Qnis mihi tribuat auditorem, nt desiderium meum audiat Omnipotens ; 
et liorum scribat ipse qui judicat. Biblia Sac. YulgatcB Editionis. The 
meaning is opposed to that ordinarily assigned to this quotation. — Ed. 

I The fonle toade hathe a faire stone in his head. 

Johx Lilie, Euphues, chap. i. bk. i. 



6 ADVERSITY— AGE. 

Adversity — Adversity' 's sweet milk, philosophy. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 3. 

Affection — Entire affection hatetli nicer hands. 

Spenser, Fairy Queen, bk. i. can. viii. st. 40. 

Affliction — Xow let us thank the eternal Power : convinced 
That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction, 
That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour 
Serves but to brighten all our future days. 

John Browx, Barbarossa, act v. sc, 3. 

Afric — From Greenland's icy mountains, 
From India's coral strand, 
Where Afric' s sunny fountains 

Roll down their golden sand. Hebeb, Missionary Hymn. 

Africa — A foutra for the world and worldlings base ! 
I speak of Africa and golden joys. 

Shaks. Henry IV, part ii. act v. sc. 3. 

After — Duncan is in his grave ! 

After lif J s fitful fever he sleeps well. Shaks. Mac. act iii. sc. 2. 

After — After death the Doctor. Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. 

After — After me the deluge. Apres moi le deluge. Attributed to 
Mad. de Pompadour ; see Notes and Queries, 3rd S. p. 397. 

Agate-stone — 0, then, T see, Queen Mab hath been with you. 
She is the fairies' midwife; and she comes 
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone 
On the forefinger of an alderman, 
Drawn with a team of little atomies 
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep. 

Shaks. Romeo and Jidiet, act i. sc. 4. 

Age — Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, 
When thought is speech and speech is truth. 

Scott, Marmion, can. ii. introd. 

Age — The weariest and most loathed worldly life 
That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment 
Can lay on nature is a paradise 
To what we fear of death. Shaks. Meas.for Meas., act iii. sc. 1. 

Age — And He that doth the ravens feed, 

Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, 
Be comfort to my age ! Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. 3. 



AGE. 7 

Age — Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale 

Her infinite variety. Shaks. Antony and Cleopatra, act ii. sc. 2. 

Age — The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, 
For talking age and whispering lovers male. 

Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 1. 13. 

Age — Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime. 

Beattie, Minstrel f v. 25. 

Age — His hair just grizzled, 

As in a green old age. Drydex, (Edipus, act iii. sc. 1. 

Age — He teas not of an age, but for all time. 

Bex Joxsox, To the Memory of Shakspeare. 

Age — In a good old age. Gen. xv. 15. 

Age — Therefore my age is as a lusty icinter, 

Frosty, but kindly. Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. 3. 

Age — The age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes 
so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. 1. 

Age — The choice and master spirits of this age. 

Shaks. Julius CcEsar, act iii. sc. 1. 

Age — See how the world its veterans rewards ! 
A youth of frolics, an old age of cards. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. ii. 1. 243. 

Age — I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their 
scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her (Marie 
Antoinette) with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. 

Burke, On the French Revolution. 

Age — How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, 
A youth of labour with an age of ease ! 

Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 1. 99. 

Age — Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of 
Time. Shaks. Henry IV, part ii. act i. sc. 2. 

Age — What find you better or more honourable than age? Take 
the pre-emiuence of it in everything; in an old friend, in old 
wine, in an old pedigree, 

Shakerly Marmiox, Antiquary, act ii. sc. 1. 



8 A GE—A GES. 

Age — But an old age serene and bright , 
And lovely as a Lapland night, 
Shall lead thee to thy grave. 

Wordsworth, To a Young Lady, xxxvi. 

Age — Age shakes Athena! s towers, but spares gray Marathon. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. ii. st. 88. 

Age — She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, 
Grows cold even in the summer of her age. 

Dryden, (Edipus, act iv. sc. 1. 

Age — One crowded hour of glorious life 
Is worth an age without a name. 

Scott, Old Mortality, vol. ii. chap. xxi. 

Age — An age that melts in unperceived decay, 
And glides in modest innocence away. 

Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, 1. 293. 

Ages — Enflamed with the study of learning, and the admiration of 
virtue ; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and 
worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages. 

Milton, Tractate of Education. 

Ages — I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time. 

Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 
Ages — Once, in the flight of ages past. 

There lived a man. J. Montgomery, The Common Lot. 

Ages — One man in his time plays many parts, 
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, 
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms : 
And then the whining school-bo} r , with his satchel, 
And shining morning face, creeping like snail 
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, 
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad 
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, 
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard ; 
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, 
Seeking the bubble reputation 

Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice ; 
In fair round belly, with good capon lined, 
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, 
Full of wise saws and modern instances ; 
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts 
Into the lean and slipper' d pantaloon; 
With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; 



AGES— A IB. 9 

His youthful hose well saved, a world too wide 
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, 
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes 
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, 
That ends this strange, eventful history, 
Is second childishness and mere oblivion ; 
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. 

Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. r. 

Ages — Yet I doubt not thro 9 the ages one increasing purpose runs, 

And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. 

Tenhyson, Locksley Hall, Poems, p. 279. 

Ages — Such souls, 

Whose sudden visitations daze the world, 
Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind 
A voice that in the distance far away 
Wakens the slumbering ages. 

H. Tayloe, Van Artevelde, act i. sc. :. 

Agony — [Death,] thou art terrible — the tear, 
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier ; 
And all we know, or dream, or fear 

Of agony are thine. Halleck, Marco Bozzaris. 

Agree — Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is won- 
derful. Sheridan, The Critic, act ii. sc. 2. 

Ahriman and Ormuzd — " I do honour to Ahrimanes.^ Thackeeay. 
The first was the principle of evil; the second, that of good: 
the first is created, and will one day perish ; the second is eter- 
nal, and will eventually conquer in the conflict. 

Ancient Pers. Mythology. 

Aidenn — Tell this soul with sorrow laden, if, within the distant 
Aidenn * 
It shall clasp a sainted maiden, whom the angels name Lenore. 

Poe, The Raven. 
Air — When he speaks ; 

The air, a charter d libertine, is still. 

Shaks. K. Henry V, act i. sc. 1. 

Air — And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, 

Be shook to air. Shaks. Troilus and Cressida, act iii. sc. 3. 

* Aidenn, an Anglicised and disguised war of spelling the Arabic form of 
the word Eden. See Wheeler's " Noted Xames of Fiction." 



10 AIR— AIRY. 

Air — ^Sor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Air — The air is full of farewells to the dying, 

And mournings for the dead. Longfellow, Resignation. 

Air — Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, 
Or dedicate his beauty to the sun. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 1. 

Air — Our revels now are ended : these our actors, 
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and 
Are melted into air, into thin air : 
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, 
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, 
The solemn temples, the great globe itself, 
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, 
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, 
Leave not a rack* behind. We are such stuff 
As dreams are made on, and our little life 
Is rounded with a sleep. Shaks. Tempest, act iv. sc. 1. 

Air — Mocking the air with colours idly spread. 

Shaks. K. John, act v. sc. 1. 

Air — Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and 
still air of delightful studies. 

Milton, Reason of Church Government, bk. ii. 

Airy — The lover, all as frantic, 

Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. 
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, 
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to hea^ en, 
And, as imagination bodies forth 
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen 
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing 
A local habitation and a name. • 

Shaks. Mid. Night's Dream, act v. sc. 1. 

Airy — A thousand fantasies 

Begin to throng into my memory, 
Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, 
And airy tongues, that syllable men's names 
On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. 

Milton, Comus, 1. 205. 

* So in the original, but Mr. Dyce reads " wreck." 



AIRY— ALIKE. 11 

Airy — Society became my glittering bride, 

And airy hopes my children. Wordsworth, Excursion, bk. iii. 

Aisle — Where, through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, 
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. 

Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard. 

Aisles — The hand that rounded Peter's dome, 
And groined the aisles of Christian Borne. 

K. W. Emerson, The Problem. 

Ajax — The sound must seem an echo to the sense : 
Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, 
And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; 
But, when loud surges lash the sounding shore, 
The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar ; 
When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, 
The line too labours, and the words move slow: 
Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, 
Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. ii. 1. 365. 

Alabaster — Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, 
Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? 

Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act i. sc. i. 

Alabaster — Xor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, 

And smooth as monumental alabaster. Shaks. Oth., act v. sc. 2. 

Alacrity — I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. 

Shaks. Merry Wives of Windsor, act iii. sc. 5. 

Alcestis — jleth ought I saw my late espoused saint 

Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave. Milton, Sonnets. 

Aldiborontephoscophonio — A character in Henry Carey's play of 
Chrononhotonthologos, who has, as Sir Walter Scott says, " a 
facetious friend Bigdum Funnidos." The words are often intro- 
duced and the characters alluded to in literature. 

Alexandrine — A needless Alexandrine ends the song, 
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. ii. 1. 356. 

Alike — Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days 

Have led their children through the mirthful maze, 
And the gay grandsire, skill' d in gestic lore, 
Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore. 

Goldsmith, Traveller, 1. 251. 



12 ALL. 

All — Let greatness of her glassy sceptres vaunt — 

Not sceptres, no ; but reeds, soon bruised, soon broken : 
And let this worldly pomp our wits enchant ; 
All fades and scarcely leaves behind a token. 

Earl op Stirling, Darius. 

All — All nature is but art, unknown to thee ; 
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see ; 
All discord, harmony not understood : 
All partial evil, universal good ; 
And, spite of pride, in erring reasons spite, 
One truth is clear : Whatever is, is right. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. i. 1. 289. 

All — Or shear swine, all cry and no wool. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. i. can. i. 1. 852. 

All — Of which all Europe rings, from side to side. 

Milton, Sonnet xxii. 

All — All in the Downs the fleet was moored. 

J. Gay, Black-eyed Susan. 

All — What though the field be lost, 

All is not lost; the unconquerable will, 
And study of revenge, immortal hate, 
And courage never to submit or yield. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 105. 

All — " All the Talents." A name given at first by its admirers, and 
afterwards in derision, to Lord Grenville's ministry, formed on 
the death of Pitt, June, 1806. Fox, Sheridan, and Windham 
were members of it. 

All — He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their 
relations the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, 
All those men have their price. 

Sir R. Walpole, From Coxe's Mem. of Walpole, vol. iii. p. 369. 

All — All that's bright must fade, — 
The brightest still the fleetest; 
All that's sweet was made 

But to be lost when sweetest. Moore, Nat. Airs. 

All — Prove all things ; hold fast that which is good, l Thess. v. 21. 

All — All things that are, 

Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. 

Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act ii. sc. 6. 



ALL— ALMIGHTY. 13 

All — I am made all things to all men. I Cor. ix. 22. 

All — And we know that all things work together for good to them 
that love God. Bom. viii. 28. 

All — All men think all men mortal hut themselves. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night i. 1. 425. 

All — All thoughts, all passions, all delights, 
Whatever stirs this mortal frame, 
All are but ministers of Love, 

And feed his sacred flame. Coleridge, Love, vol. i. p. 145. 

All — Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, 

To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not; 

Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, 

Thy God's, and truth's. Shaks. K. Henry VIII, act iii. sc. 2. 

All — For all we know 

Of what the blessed do above 

Is that they sing and that they love.* 

"Waller, Song to Chi oris. 

All — And all we met was fair and good, 
And all was good that time could bring, 
And all the secrets of the spring 
Moved in the chambers of the blood. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxiii. 

Allegory — As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Xile. 
Sheridan, The Rivals, act v. sc. 3. 

Allies— Thou hast left behind 

Powers that will work for thee. — air, earth, and skies; 
There's not a breathing of the common wind 
That will forget thee: thou hast great allies; 
Thy friends are exultations, agonies, 
And love, and man's unconquerable mind. 

Wordsworth, Son. to Toussaint L' Ouverture, pt. i. s. 

Allured — Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. 

Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 1. 1:0. 

Al /nighty — The almighty dollar — that great object of universal 
devotion throughout our land ! W. Irving, The Creole Village. 



* Thus quoted in Lady Rachel Russell's " Letter to Earl Galway, on Friend- 
ship :" — 

' : All we know they do above 
Is that they sing and that they love." — Ed. 



H ALMIGHTY— ALR AS CHID. 

Almighty — These as they change, Almighty Father, these 
Are but the varied God ! The rolling year 
Is full of Thee. Thomson, Hymn, 1. 1. 

Alms — But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what 
thy right hand doeth. Matt. vi. 3. 

Alone — Alone, that worn-out word, 
So coldly spoken and so idly heard; 
Yet all that poets tell or grief hath known 
Of hearts laid waste dwells in that word alone. 

Bulwer, New Timon. 

Alone — Then, never less alone than when alone. 

Rogers, Human Life. 

Alone — They are never alone that are accompanied with noble 
thoughts. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, bk. i. 

Alone — Alone, alone, all, all alone, 
Alone on a wide, wide sea. 

Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, pt. iv. 

Alone — It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. is. 

Alone — We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, 
But we left him alone with his glory ! 

C. Wolff, ^The Burial of Sir J. Moore. 

Alone — I, measuring his affections by my own, 
That most are busied when they're most alone. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 1. 

Alp — (Jer many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, 

E-ocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. 620. 

Alpha — I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the 
tirst and the last. Rev. xxii. 13. 

Alps — Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. ii. 1. 32. 

Alraschid — For it was in the golden prime 
Of good Haroun Alraschid. 

Tennyson, Rec. of the Arabian Nights. 



ALS AT I A— AMBITION. 15 

Alsatia — The furious German comes, with his clarions and his drums, 
His bravoes of Alsatia,- and pages of Whitehall. 

MagaulaYj Ballads. 

Altars — Strike for your altars and your fires ! 
Strike for the green graves of your sires, 
God, and your native land ! Halle ck, Marco Bozzaris. 

Alteration — Let me not to the marriage of true minds 
Admit impediments. Love is not love 
Which alters when it alteration finds . Shaks. Sonnet cxvi. 

Alway — I would not live alway. Job vii. is. 

Amalthea — Flowed like an Amalthea! s horn. Carlyle, Frederick. 
Amalthea was the goat that suckled Jupiter; one of the horns 
broken off was so endowed that it became a cornucopia, an ever- 
lasting horn of plenty. 

Amber — Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms 
Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! 
The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, 
But wonder how the devil they got there. 

Pope, Ep. to Dr. Arbuthnot, 1. 169. 

Ambition — But wild ambition loves to slide, not stand, 
And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's land. 

Drydex, Absolom and Achitophel, pt. i. 1. 19s. 

Ambition — When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept : 
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. 

Shaks. Julius Casar, act iii. sc. 2. 
Ambition — Praise enough 

To till the ambition of a private man, 

That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. ii. 1. 235. 
Ambition — Here we may reign secure, and in my choice 
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell; 
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. 

Miltox, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 253. 
Ambition — I have no spur 

To prick the sides of my intent, but only 
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself f 
And falls on the other side. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 7. 

* Alsatia, often alluded to in literature, was in the precincts of Whitefriars, 
where debtors took refuge. See Cuuniugharu's " Loudon." 

t Should this not be manifestly ' ; sell," i.e. seat, the image being that of a 
horseman leaping vaulting to his saddle \ 



16 AMBITION— ANCIENT. 

Ambition — Fling away ambition ; 

By that sin fell the angels. Spiaks. K. Henry VIII, act iii. sc. 2. 
Amen — I had most need of blessing, and Amen 

Stuck in my throat. Ibid, act i. sc. 2. 

Amend — Amend your ways and your doings. Jer. vii. 3. 

Among — I stood 

Among them, but not 0/ them. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto iii. st. 113. 
Among — She dwelt among the untrodden ways 
Beside the springs of Dove, 

A maid whom there were none to praise, 
And very few to love. 

Wordsworth, Poems, vol, i. p. 217, edit. 1799. 
Amorous — Still amorous, and fond, and billing, 
Like Philip and Mary on a shilling. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. iii. can. i. 1. 687. 
Ample — Give ample room, and verge enough, 

The characters of Hell to trace. Gray, The Bard, pt. ii. st. 1. 
1 An — Though he endeavour it all he can, 
An ape will never be a man. 

George Wither's Emblems, First Lotterie, emblem 14. 
Anarch — Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, 
And unawares morality expires ; 
Nor public flame nor private dares to shine; 
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine. 
Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos, is restored ; 
Light dies before thy uncreating word : 
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall, 
And universal darkness buries all. Pope, Dunciad, bk. iv. 1. 649. 

Ancestors — All his successors, gone before him, hath done't; and 
all his ancestors that come after him may. 

Shaks. Merry Wives of Windsor, act i. sc. 1. 
Ancestors — Where eldest Night 

And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold 
Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise 

Of endless wars. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. 894. 

Ancient — A very ancient and fish-like smell. 

Shaks. Tempest, act ii. sc. 2. 
Ancient — I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. 

Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act i. sc. 3. 



ANCIENTS— ANGELS. 17 

Ancients — We are the ancients of the earth 

And in the morning of the time. Tennyson, Daydream, U Envoi. 

And — And we with Nature's heart in tune concerted harmonies. 

Motherwell, Jeanie Morrison. 

Angel — Oh, woman! in o"ur hours of ease, 
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, 
And variable as the shade 
By the light quivering aspen made ; 
"When pain and anguish wring the brow, 
A ministering angel thou! Scott, Marmion, can. vi. st. so. 

Angel — A guardian angel o'er his life presiding. 
Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. 

Kogers, Human Life. 

Angel — The accusing spirit, which flew up to Heaven's chancery 
with the oath, blushed as he gave it in ; and the recording angel , 
as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted 
it out for ever.* Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vol. iv. ch. 8. 

Angelic — We extol Bacon and sneer at Aquinas, but if the situa- 
tions had been changed, Bacon might have been The Angelic 
Doctor, f Macaulay, Essays, Lord Bacon ^ 

Angel's face — Her angel's face, 

As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, 
Ajid made a sunshine in the shady place. 

Spenser, Fairy Queen, bk. i. can. iii. st. 4. 

Angel's ken — As far as angel's ken. 

Miltox, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 59. 

Angels — But sad as angels for the good mans sin, 
Weep to record and blush to give it in. J 

Campbell, Pleas, of Hope, pt. ii. 

Angels — Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act iv. sc. .3. 

Angels — Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber; 
Holy angels guard thy bed ; 
Heav'nly blessings without number 

Gently falling on thy head. "Watts, A Cradle Hymn. 



* Weep to record, and blush to give it in. 

Campbell, Pleasures of Hope. pt. ii 
t A name applied to Thomas Aqninas. 
I See Sterne, ut supra, from which this is taken. 
C 



18 ANGELS. 

Angels — And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams 
Call to the soul when man doth sleep, 
So some strange thoughts transceud our wonted themes 
And into glory peep. H. Yaughax, They are all gone. 

Angels — Angels and ministers of grace, defend us ! 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 4. 

Angels — So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, 
That, when a soul is found sincerely so, 
A thousand liveried angels lackey her. Milton, Camus, 1. 453. 

Angels — Angels listen when she speaks: 

She's my delight and mankind's wonder; 
But my jealous heart would break 

Should we live one day asunder. Eochestee, Poems. 

Angels — But man, proud man, 

Dress' d in a little brief authority, 
Most ignorant of what he's most assured, 
His glassy essence, like an angry ape, 
Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven 
As make the anyels weep. 

Shaks. Measure for Measure, act ii. sc. 2. 

Angels — Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, 
We should agree as angels do above. 

Waller, Divine Love, cant. iii. 

Angels — woman ! lovely woman ! Nature made thee 
To temper man; we had been brutes without you. 
Angels are painted fair, to look like you : 
There's in you all that we believe of Heaven ; 
Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, 
Eternal joy, and everlasting love. 

T. Otway, Venice Preserved, act i. sc. 1. 

Angels — Besides, this Duncan 

Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been 
So clear in his great office, that his virtues 
Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against 
The deep damnation of his taking-off. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 7. 

Angels — In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; 
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. 
Pride still is aiming at the blessed abodes : 
Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Pope, Ep. i. 1. 123. 



ANGELS— ANGUISH. 19 

Angels — We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies. 

Ford, The Honest Whore, act i. sc. 2. 

Angel-visits — Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, 
But leave — oh ! leave the light of Hope behind ! 
What though my winged hours of bliss have been, 
Like angel-visits, few and far between * 

T. Campbell, Pleas, of Hope, pt. ii. 1. 375. 

Anger — An you love me, forspeak me not : 'tis the worst luck in 

the world to stir a witch or anger a wise man. 

George Peele. Edward I, Dyce's Ed. p. 410. 

Anger — A coimtenance more 

In sorrow than in anger. Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. 

Anger — 0, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful 
In the contempt and anger of his lip ! 

Shaks. Twelfth Night, act iii. sc. 1 

Angling — Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be bom so. 
I. Walto>~, The Complete Angler, pt. i. ch. 1 

Angry — Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, 
But most chastises those whom most he likes. 

Pomfket, To his Friend in Affliction. 

Angry — Be ye angry, and sin not : let not the sun go down upon 
your wrath. Eph. iv. 26. 

Anguish — One fire burns out another's burning, 

One pain is lessen d by another s anguish. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 2. 

Anguish — In Misery's darkest cavern known, 
His useful care was ever nigh, 
Where hopeless Anguish poured his groan, 
And lonely Want retired to die. 

Joh>"so>~, Epitaph on Robert Levett. 

* So few and rare between. 

Hesiod, Works and Days, div. ii. 1. 393. 
How fading are the joys we dote npon ! 
Like apparitions seen and gone ; 
Bnt those which soonest take their flight 
Are the most exquisite and strong ; 
Like angels' visits, short and bright, 
Mortality's too weak to bear them long. 

Rev. J. Norris, of Bemerton, ''The Parting. 
Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, 
Xot to return ; or if it did, in visits 
Like those of angels, short and far between. 

R. Blair, The Grave, pt. ii. 1. 5S6. 



20 AN IMA TED— ANTIPODES. 

Animated — Can storied urn or animated bust 
Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? 

Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard. 

Annals — Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile 

The short and simple annals of the poor. Ibid. 

Annihilate — Ye Gods ! annihilate but space and time, 

And make two lovers happy. Pope, Martinus Scriblerus, ch. xi. 

Anointed — Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women 

Rail on the Lord's anointed. Shaks. K. Rich. Ill, act iv. sc. 4. 

Another — By happy chance we saw 
A twofold image : on a grassy bank 
A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood 
Another and the same ! Wordsworth, Excursion, bk. ix. 

Another's brow — We see Time' s furrows on another's brow ; 
How few themselves in that just mirror see ! 

Young, Night Thoughts, 1. 627. 

Another's sword — Another's sword has laid him low, 
Another's and another's ; 
And every hand that dealt the blow, 
Ah me ! it was a brother's ! 

Campbell, O'Connor's Child, st. 10. 

Answer — A soft answer turneth away wrath. Proverbs xv. l. 

Answer — The Christmas bells from hill to hill 
Answer each other in the mist. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxviii # 

Anthems — For my voice, I have lost it with holloaing and singing 
of anthems. Shaks. K. Hen. IV, pt. ii. act i. sc. 2. 

Anthropophagi — The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads 
Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear 
Would Desdemona seriously incline. Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. 3. 

Antidote — Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd : 
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; 
Haze out the written troubles of the brain; 
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, 
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff 
Which weighs upon the heart? Shaks. Macbeth, act v. sc. 3. 

Antipodes — Thou damned antipodes to common sense. 

Ko Chester, To Edward Howard. 



ANTRES— APPETITE. 21 

Antres — Antres vast, and desarts idle. Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. 3. 

Anything — For what is worth in anything 
But so much money as 't will bring ? 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. ii. can. i. 1. 465. 

Apollo — How charming is divine philosophy ! 
Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, 
But musical as is Apollo's lute, 
And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, 
Where no crude surfeit reigns. Milton, Comus, 1. 476. 

Apollos — I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the 
increase. 1 Cor. iii. 6. 

Apostle of Temperance — A title bestowed on Father Mathew, 
who died in 1856, an early, if not the first, great Temperance 
Preacher. 

Apostles — Not she with trait' rous kiss her Master stung, 
Not she denied him with unfaithful tongue; 
She, when Apostles fled, could danger brave, 
Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave. 

Elizabeth Barrett, Woman. 

Apostolic — And prove their doctrine orthodox 
By Apostolic blows and knocks. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. i. can. i. 1. 199. 

Apparel — Every true man's apparel fits your thief. 

Shaks. Measure for Measure, act iv. sc. 2. 

Apparel — Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 
But not express'd in fancy ; rich, not gaudy : 
For the apparel oft proclaims the man. Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 3. 

Apparitions — I have mark'd 

A thousand blushing apparitions start 
Into her face ; a thousand innocent shames 
In angel whiteness bear away those blushes. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act iv. sc. 1. 

Appeal — / appeal unto Casar. Acts xxv. 11. 

Appearance — Judge not according to the appearance. John vii. 24. 

Appetite — Doth not the appetite alter ? A man loves the meat in 
his youth that he cannot endure in his age. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act ii. sc. 3. 



22 APPETITE— APPROBATION. 

Appetite — And then to breakfast, with 

What appetite you have. Shaks. K. Henry VIII, act iii. sc. 2. 

Appetite — Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. 

Rabelais, bk. i. ch. 5. 

Appetite — Now, good digestion wait on appetite, 

And health on both ! Shaks. Macbeth, act iii. sc. 4. 

Appetite — Why, she would hang on him 

As if increase of appetite had grown 
By what it fed on. Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. 

Appetite — 0, who can hold a fire in his hand 
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? 
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite 
By bare imagination of a feast ? 

Shaks. K. Richard II, act i. sc. 3. 

Applaud — I would applaud thee to the very echo, 

That should applaud again. Shaks. Macbeth, act v. sc. 3. 

Apple — He kept him as the apple of his eye. Deut. xxxii. 10. 

Apple — A goodly apple rotten at the heart ; 
0, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! 

Shaks. Merchant of Venice, act i. sc. 3. 

Apples — There's small choice in rotten apples. 

Shaks. Taming of the Shrew, act i. sc. 1. 

Apples — A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of 
silver. Prov. xxv. 11. 

Appliance — Diseases, desperate grown, 

By desperate appliance are reliev'd, 
Or not at all. Shaks. Hamlet, act iv. sc. 3. 

Appliances — With all appliances and means to boot. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part ii. act iii. sc. 1. 

Apprehension — The sense of death is most in apprehension ; 
And the poor beetle that we tread upon 
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great 
As when a giant dies. Shaks. Measure for Measure, act iii. sc. 1. 

Apprehension — The apprehension of the good 

Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. 

Shaks. K. Richard II, act i. sc. 3. 

Approbation — Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise 
indeed. T. Morton, A Cure for the Heart- Ache, act v. sc. 2. 



APPROVING—ARCHER. 23 

Approving — An elegant sufficiency, content, 
Ketirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, 
Ease and alternate labour, useful life, 
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven. 

Thomson, Spring, 1. ii6i. 

Approving — One self-approving hour whole years outweighs. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. 255. 

April — 0, how this spring of love resembleth 
The uncertain glory of an April day ! 

Shaks. Two Gentlemen of Verona, act i. sc. 3. 

April — Thirty days hath September, 
April, June, and November, 
February hath twenty-eight alone, 
And all the rest have thirty-one. 
Excepting leap-year, then is the time 
When February's days are twenty-nine.* Child's "Primer. 

Arabia — And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. 

Pope, The Rape of the Lock, can. i. 1. 134. 

Arabia — All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little 
hand. Shaks. Macbeth, act v. sc. 1. 

Araby s daughter — Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby' s daughter. 

Moore, The Fire-Worshippers. 

Araby — Araby the blest I Kogers, Italy, The Feluca, 1. 107. 

Archangel — His form had yet not lost 

All her original brightness, nor appeared 
Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess 
Of glory obscured. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 591. 

Archer — Insatiate Archer ! could not one suffice ? 
Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; 
And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night i. L 212. 



* In Harrison's description of Britain, preface to Holinshed's Chronicles. 
1577, p. 119, appears the following: — 

Thirty days hath November, 
April, June, and September, 
Twenty and eyght hath Feb. alone, 
But in the leape you must add one, 
And all the rest thirty-and-one. 



24 ARCHITECT— ABM IES. 

Architect — Every man is architect of his own fortune. 

Anonymous. 
Architecture — Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend 
The wondrous architecture of the world. 

Marlowe, Tamburlaine, act ii. sc. 4. 

Argent — At length burst in the argent revelry, 

With plume, tiara, and all rich array. Keats, St. Agnes 1 Eve. 

Argue — Yet I argue not 

Against Heaven s hand or will, nor bate a jot 
Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer 
, Right onward. Milton, Sonnet xxii. 

Argue — In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, 
For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still ; 
While words of learned length and thundering sound 
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ; 
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew 
That one small head could carry all he knew. 

Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 1. si. 

Argues — Xot to know me argues yourselves unknown, 

The lowest of your throng. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iv. 1. 830. 

Argument — He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than 
the staple of his argument. 

Shaks. Lovers Labour's Lost, act v. sc. i. 

Ark — Presume to lay their hand upon the ark 
Of her magnificent and awful cause. 

Cowper, The Task, The Timepiece, bk. ii. 

Ark — A successive title, long and dark, 

Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah! 's ark. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, pt. i. 1. 301. 

ArmidcHs Palace — The stage, even as it then was, after the re- 
cluseness of a college life, must have appeared like Armida's en- 
chanted palace.* Hazlitt, Essays. 

Armies — Ran on embattled armies clad in iron. 

Milton, Samson Agonistes, 1. 129. 

Armies — "Our armies swore terribly in Flanders," cried my uncle 
Toby, " but nothing to this." 

L. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vol. iii. chap. xi. 

* Armida is an enchantress, and one of the most beautiful and exquisitelv- 
dravm characters in Tasso's " Jerusalem Delivered." 



ARMOUR— ART. 25 

Armour — How happy is he born or taught 
That serveth not another's will, 
Whose armour is his honest thought, 
And simple truth his utmost skill ! 

Sir H. Wottox, The Character of a Happy Life. 

Armourers — The hum of either army stilly sounds, 
That the fix'd sentinels almost receive 
The secret whispers of each other's watch : 
Fire answers fire ; and through their paly flames 
Each battle sees the other's umber'd face : 
Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs 
Piercing the night's dull ear; and, from the tents, 
The armourers, accomplishing the knights, 
With busy hammers closing rivets up, 
Give dreadful note of preparation. 

Shaks. K. Henry V, act iv. chorus. 

Arms — Arms and the man I sing, who, forced by fate, 
And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate. 

Dryden's Trans, of Virg. 2En. bk. i. 1. 1. 

Arms — Of seeming arms to make a short essay, 
Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day. 

Dryden, Cymon and Iphigenia, 1. 407. 

Arms — Eyes, look your last ! 

Arms, take your last embrace ! 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act v. sc. 3. 

Army — Terrible as an army with banners. 

Song of Solomon, vi. 10. 

Arrant — 'Tis a gull, an arrant gull with all this. 

Scott, Peveril, chap, xxvii. 

Arrow — I have shot mine arrow d er the house, 

And hurt my brother. Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. 2. 

Arrows — Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act iii. sc. 1. 

Art — Th' adorning thee with so much art 
Is but a barbarous skill; 
'Tis like the poisoning of a dart, 

Too apt before to kill. Cowley, The Waiting Maid. 

Art — True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, 
As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. ii. 1. l®. 



26 ART— ARTS. 

Art — And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. i. 1. 153. 

Art — For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. 

Dryden, The Cock and Fox, 1. 452. 

Art — The course of Xature is the art of God. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night ix. 1. 126:. 

Art — The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne, 
Th' assay so hard, so sharpe the conquering. 

Chaucer, Assembly of Foul es, 1. 1. 

Art — Art is long, and time is fleeting.* 

Longfellow, A Psalm of Life. 

Art — To me more dear, congenial to my heart, 
One native charm, than all the gloss of art. 

Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 1. 253. 

Art — The last and greatest art, the art to blot. 

Pope, Sat. Fp. and Odes of Horace, bk. ii. ep. i. 1. 280. 

Art — The only art her guilt to cover, 
To hide her shame from every eye, 
To give repentance to her lover, 
And wring his bosom is — to die. 

Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield, chap. xxiv. 

Art — With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, 
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. 

Churchill, Fp. to Willia?n Hogarth,. 

Artless — So full of artless jealousy is guilt, 

It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. Siiaks. Ham. act iv. sc. 5. 

Arts — Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts 

And eloquence. Milton, Paradise Regained, bk. iv. 1. 240. 

m Arts — Of all those arts in which the wise excel, 

Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. 

Sheffield, Ess. of Poetry. 

Arts — We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine, 
But search of deep philosophy, 
Wit, eloquence, and poetry, 

Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine. 

Cowley, On the Death of Mr. W. Harvey. 

* "Ars longa, vita brevis." This is a mere translation of one of the Aphor- 
isms of Hippocrates: — 



AS— ASK. 27 

As — As I lay a-thinkinge, a-thinkinge, a-thinkinge, 
Merry sang the bird as it sat upon the tree. 

Bariiam, Ingoldsby Legends, Last Verses. 
As — As good as a play. 

An Exclamation of Charles II. when in Parliament attending 
the Discussion of Lord Ross's Divorce Bill. 

As — As he thinketh in his heart, so is he. Prov. xxiii. :. 

As — As it fell upon a day, 
In the merry month of May, 
Sitting in a pleasant shade, 
"Which a grove of myrtles made. 

K. Barxeield, Address to the Nightingale. 

Ashes — Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. 

The Burial Service. 

Ashes — E'en from the tomb the voice of Xature cries, 
E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. 

Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard. 

Ashes — Lie gently on my ashes, gentle Earth !* 

Beaumont and Fletcher, Bonduca, act iv. sc. 3. 

Ashes — Snatch from the ashes of your sires 
The embers of their former fires ; 
And he who in the strife expires 
Will add to theirs a name of fear 
That Tyranny shall quake to hear, 
And leave his sons a hope, a fame 
They, too, will rather die than shame ; 
For "Freedom's battle, once begun, 
Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, 
Though baffled oft, is ever won. Byron, The Giaour, 1. ne. 

Ashes — And how can man die better 
Than facing fearful odds, 
For the ashes of his fathers 

And the temples of his gods ? Macaulay, Lays of Anc. Borne. 

Ashes — Our best remains are ashes and a shade. 

Francis, Trans, of Horace, bk. iv. ode r. 

Ask — Ask, and it shall be given you ; seek, and ye shall find ; knock, 
and it shall be opened unto you. Matt. vii. r. 

* See Prior to Mem. of Col. George Yilliers. 



28 ASK— ASPIRING. 

Ask — Ask not of me, love, what is love ! 
Ask what is good of God above — 
Ask of the great sun what is light — ■ 
Ask what is darkness of the night — 
Ask sin of what may be forgiven — 
Ask what is happiness of Heaven — 
Ask what is folly of the crowd — 
Ask what is fashion of the shroud — ■ 
Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss — 
Ask of thyself what beauty is ? P. J. Bailey, Festus. 

Ask — To wear a crown enchased with pearls and gold, 
Whose virtues carry with it life and death ; 
To ask and have, command and be obeyed. 

Marlowe, Tamburlaine, act iv. sc. 3. 

Ask — And what its worth, ask death-beds : they can tell. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night ii. 1. si. 

Ask — Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. 

Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, act iii. 

Askelon — Tell it no? in Gath: publish it not in the streets of 
Askelon. 2 Sam. i. 20. 

Asleep — Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; 
And all that mighty heart is lying still ! 

Wordsworth, Miscell. Sonnets, pt, ii. xxxvi. 

Asleep — Here she lies, a pretty bud, 
Lately made of flesh and blood ; 
Who as soon fell fast asleep 
As her little eyes did peep. 
Give her strewings, but not stir 
The earth that lightly covers her. 

Herrick, Hespeiides, ep. xcviii. 

Asmodeus — A kind of good-natured Mephistopheles, in Le Sage's 
Diable Boiteux. — Could the reader take an Asinodeus flight, 
and waving open all roofs and privacies, look down from the 
roof of Xotre-Dame, what a Paris it were ! 

Carlyle, French Revolution. 

Aspick's tongues — Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, 

For 'tis of aspicks' tongues I Shaks. Othello, act iii. sc. 3. 

Aspiring — What ! will the aspiring blood of Lancaster 

Sink in the ground? Shaks. K. Henry VI, pt. iii. act v. sc. 6. 



ASS— AT L ANTE AN. 29 

Ass — Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull ass will not 
mend his pace with beating. Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. 1. 

Ass — Egregiously an ass. Shaks. Othello, act ii. sc. 1. 

Ass — 0, that he were here to write me down an ass ! — 
0, that I had been writ down an ass ! 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act iv. sc. 2. 

Assassination — If it were clone when 'tis clone, then 'twere well 
It were clone quickly : if the assassination 
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 
With his surcease, success ; that but this blow 
Might be the be-all and the end-all here. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 7. 

Assembly — Is our whole diss(ass)embly appeared ? 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act iv. 

Assume — Assume a virtue if you have it not. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4. 

Assurance — I'll make assurance double sure, 

And take a bond of fate. Shaks. Macbeth, act iv. sc. 1. 

Assurance — A combination, and a form, indeed, 
Where every god did seem to set his seal, 
To give the world assurance of a man. Shaks. Ham. act iii. sc. 4. 

Astronomer — An undevout astronomer is mad. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night ix. 1. 771. 

Atheism — Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, 
(Portentous sight !) the owlet Atheism, 
Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, 
Drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, 
And, hooting at the glorious sun in heaven, 
Cries out, " Where is it?" Coleridge, Fears in Solitude. 

Atheist — By night an atheist half believes a God. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night v. 1. 177. 

Atheist's — An atheist's laugh f s a poor exchange 

For Deity offended ! Burxs, Ep* to a Young Fiiend. 

Atlantean — With grave • 

Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed 
A pillar of state ; deep on his front engraven 
Deliberation sat, and public care ; 



30 ATTEMPT— AVON. 

And princely counsel in his face yet shone, 

Majestic though in ruin. Sage he stood, 

With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear 

The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look 

Drew audience and attention still as night 

Or summer's noontide air. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. 300. 

Attempt — The attempt, and not the deed, 

Confounds us. Shaks. Macbeth, act ii. sc. 2. 

Attempt — Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt : 
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. 

Lovelace, Seek and Find. 

Attendance — To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures. 

Shaks. K. Henry VIII, act v. sc. 2. 
Attire — rise and sit in soft attire. 

Thomas Aird, My Mother s Grave. 

Audience — Still govern thou my song, 

Urania, and fit audience find, though few. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. vii. 1. 30. 

Augury — We defy augury. Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. 2. 

Auld — Should auld acquaintance be forgot, 
And never brought to min ? ? 
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, 

And days 0' lang syne ? Burns, Auld Lang Syne. 

Author — Show him up. Don't stir, gentlemen ; His but an author. 
Le Sage, Gil Bias, bk. iii. chap. 11. 

Authors — Authors alone, with more than savage rage, 
Unnatural war with brother-authors wage. 

Churchill, The Apology, 1. 27. 
Autumn — Autumn nodding o'er the yellow plain. 

Thomson, Autumn, 1. 2. 
Autumn — Yellow autumn, wreathed with nodding corn. 

Burns, Brigs of Ayr. 
Avon— A s thou these ashes, little Brook ! wilt bear 
Into the Avon, Avon to the tide 
Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, 
Into the main ocean they, this deed accursed 
Ah emblem yields to friends and enemies, 
How the bold Teacher's doctrine, sanctified 
By truth, shall spread throughout the world dispersed. 

Wordsworth, To Wickliff. 



AWAKE— AYR. 31 

Awake — Awake! arise! or be for ever fallen. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 330. 

Awe — I cannot tell what you and other men 
Think of this life ; but, for my single self, 
I had as lief not be as live to be 
In awe of such a thing as /myself. Shaks. Jul. C<2. act i. sc. 2. 

Awful — 'Tis as the general pulse 

Of life stood still and nature made a pause, 
An awful pause. Young, Night Thoughts, Complaint, 1. 23. 

Axe — And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees. 

Luke iii. 9. 

Axe — When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers, beg- 
ging them to take a little brandy, and throwing his goods on 
the counter, thinks I, that man has an axe to grind. 

Benj. Franklin, Poor Richard. 

Ayr — Auld Ayr, whom ne'er a town surpasses 

For honest men and bonnie lasses. Burns, Tarn O'Shanter. 




BABBLED— BA CK. 




ABB LED— Babbled of green fields. 

Shaks. K. Henry V, act ii. sc. 3. 

Babe — Cold on Canadian hills or Minden's plain, 
Perhaps the parent mourned her soldier slain; 
Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew; 
The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew, 
Gave the sad presage of his future years, 
The child of misery, baptized in tears. 

J. Laxghorne, The Country Justice, pt. i. 

Baby — Baby fingers, waxen touches, press me from the mother's 
breast. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 

Baby — The Public ! why, the Public's nothing better than a great 
baby! Chalmers, Letters. 

Bachelor — When I said / would die a bachelor, I did not think I 
should live till I were married. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act ii. sc. 3. 

Back — Back and side, go bare, go bare, 
Both foot and hand, go cold ; 
But, belly, God send thee good ale enough, 
Whether it be new or old. 

Bp. Still, Gammer GurtorCs Needle, act ii. 

Back — The man that hails you Tom or Jack, 
And proves by thumps upon your back 

How he esteems your merit, 
Is such a friend that one had need 
Be very much his friend indeed 

To pardon or to bear it. Cowper, Friendship. 

Back — With his back to the field, and his feet to the foe. 

Campbell, LochieVs Warning. 



B ACKING— BALLADS. 33 

Backing — Call you that backing of your friends ? A plague upon 
such backing 1 Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act ii. sc. 4. 

Bad — High, on a throne of royal state— which far 
Outshone the wealth of Ormuz and of Ind, 
Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand 
Showers on her kings barbaric, pearl and gold — 
Satan exalted sat, by merit raised 
To that bad eminence. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. i. 

Badge — Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. 

Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act i. sc. 3. 

Baggage — It will let in and out the enemy 

With bag and baggage. Shaks. Winter's Tale, act i. sc. 2. 

Balaam — And sad Sir Balaam curses God and dies. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. iii. last line. 

Balance — Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are 
counted as the small dust of the balance. Isaiah xl. is. 

Balances — Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. 

Dan. v. 27. 

Bald — The noise of life begins again, 
And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain 
On the bald street breaks the blank day. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam. 

Bales — Thoughts shut up want air, 

And spoil like bales unopened to the sun. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night ii. 1. 466. 

Ballad — A ballad to the wandering moon. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, can. lxxxviii. v. 8. 

Ballad — I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, 
Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act iii. sc. i. 

Ballads — I knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man were 
permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should 
make the laws of a nation. 

Andrew Fletcher, of Saltoun. Letter to the Marquis of 
Montrose, the Earl of Rothes, fyc. 

Ballads — Thespis, the first professor of our art, 
At country wakes sung ballads from a cart. 

Drydex, Prologue to Lee's Sophonisba. 

D 



34 BALLADS— BANQUET. 

Ballads — If I were permitted to make the ballads of a nation, I 
should not care who made its laws. Edinburgh Keyiew, No. 229. 

Balm — Is there, is there balm in Gilead ?— tell me — tell me, I 

implore. Poe, The Raven. 

Balm — Is there no balm in Gilead ; is there no physician there ? 

Jer. viii. 22. 

Balm — Methought I heard a voice cry, " Sleep no more ! 
Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, 
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care, 
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, 
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, 
Chief nourisher in life's feast. Shaks. Macbeth, act ii. sc. 2. 

Bane — My death and life, 

My bane and antidote, are both before me. 

Addison, Cato, act v. sc. 1. 
Bane — The bane of all that dread the devil. 

Wordsworth, The Idiot Boy. 

Bank — / know a bank where the wild thyme blows, 
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows. 

Shaks. Midsummer - Night' s Dream, act ii. sc. 2. 

Bankrupt — Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease. 

Dryden, Absolom and Achitophel. 

Bankrupt — What a bankrupt am I made 

Of a full stock of blessings ! Ford, Perk. Warbeck, act iii. sc. 2. 

Banish — Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act ii. sc. 4. 

Banner — i^he star-spangled banner, 0, long may it wave 
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ! 

F. S. Key, The Star-spangled Banner. 

Banners — Hang out our banners on the outward walls ; 
The cry is still " They come !" Our castle's strength 
Will laugh a siege to scorn. Shaks. Macbeth, act v. sc. 5. 

Banquet — I feel like one 

Who treads alone 
Some banquet-hall deserted, 

Whose lights are fled, 

Whose garlands dead, 
And all but he departed. Moore, Oft in the Stilly Night. 



BANQUET— BARREN. 35 

Banquet — She comes a-reckoning when the banquet's o'er, 
The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more. 

J. Gay, The What D'ye Call't, act ii. sc. 9. 

Bar — Sweat and wrangle at the bar. Ben Jonson, The Forest. 

Bar — A group of wranglers from the bar, 

Suspending here their mimic war. Bloomfield, Banks of Wye. 

Bar — Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, 
And grasps the skirts of happy chance, 
And breasts the blows of circumstance, 
And grapples with his evil star. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, can. lxiii. v. 2. 

Barbarians — There were his young barbarians all at play, 
There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, 
Butchered to make a Roman holiday. 

Byron, Chllde Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. 141. 

Bark — Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, 

Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale ? Pope, Ep. iv. 1. 390. 

Bark — I sit within a helmless bark, 
And with my heart I muse. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, can. iv. v. 1. 

Bark — His bark is worse than his bite. 

Herbert, Jacida Prudentum. 

Barks — The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb. 

Shaks. K. Henry VI, part ii. act iii. sc. 1. 

Barleycorn — Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, 
What dangers thou canst make us scorn ! 

R. Burns, Tarn O'Shanter. 

Barnacle — The Barnacle Family had for some time helped to ad- 
minister the Circumlocution Office . . . They were dispersed all 
over the public offices, and held all sorts of public places. Either 
the nation was under a load of obligation to the Barnacles, or 
the Barnacles were under a load of obligation to the nation. It 
was not quite unanimously settled which ; the Barnacles having 
their opinion, and the nation theirs. 

Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, ch. x. 

Barren — Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, 
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe ; 
Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, 
Xo son of mine succeeding. Shaks. Macbeth, act iii. sc. 1. 



36 BASE— BATTLE. 

Base — Is base in kind, and born to be a slave. 

Cowper, Table Talk. 

Base — Base is the slave that pays. 

Shaks. K. Henry V, act ii. sc. 1. 

Base — To what base uses we may return, Horatio ! 

Shaks. Hamlet , act v. sc. 1. 

Baseness — Is there no baseness we would hide, 
No inner vileness that we dread ? 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, can. 1. v. 1. 

Baseness — She finds the baseness of her lot, 

Half jealous of she knows not what. Ibid. can. Jix. v. 2. 

Baseness — Never ill, man, until / hear of baseness ; 
And then I sicken. 

Beaumont and Fletcher, Nice Valour, act i. sc. 1. 

Baser — Lewd fellows of the baser sort. Acts xvii. 5. 

Bastard— He is but a bastard to the time 

That doth not smack of observation. 

Shaks. K. John, act i. sc. 1. 

Bastion — And topples round the dreary west 
A looming bastion fringed with fire. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, xv. 

Bated — In a bondman's key, 

With bated breath, and whispering humbleness. 

Shaks. Merchant of Venice, act i. sc. 3. 

Battalions — When sorrows come, they come not single spies, 

But in battalions. Shaks. Hamlet, act iv. sc. 5. 

Battle — Ye mariners of England, 
That guard our native seas, 
Whose flag has braved a thousand years 

The battle and the breeze ! Campbell, Ye Mariners of England. 

Battle — How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! 

2 Sa?n. i. 25. 

Battle — What a charming thing is a battle ! 

Bickerstaff, Receiving Serjeant, act i. sc. 4, 

Battle — Heard so oft 

In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge 

Of battle. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 275. 



BATTLE— BE. 37 

Battle — The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. 

Eccles. ix. 11. 

Battled — TTho battled for the true, the just. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, can. lv. v. 5. 

Battle's array — Battle's magnificently-stern array! 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iii. st. 28. 

Battlements — With battlements, that on their restless fronts 
Bore stars. Wordsworth, The Excursion, ok. ii. 

Battles — Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain, 
Fought all his battles o'er again ; 
And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. 

Drydex, Alexander s Feast, 1. 66. 

Battles — The battles, sieges, fortunes, 

That I have passed. Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. 3. 

Bay — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, 

Than such a Eoman. Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act iv. sc. 3. 

Be — In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, 
Alike fantastic, if too new or old : 
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, 
Xor vet the last to lav the old aside. 

Pope, An Essay on Criticism, pt. ii. 1. 133. 

Be — Be of good cheer: it is I; he not afraid. Matt. xiv. 27. 

Be — Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; 
In short, my deary, kiss me ! and be quiet. 

Lady M. W. Moxtagu * 

Be — Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. 
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, 
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 3. 

Be — Be to her virtues very kind ; 

Be to her faults a little blind. Prior, An English Padlock. 

Be — Be icise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night i. 1. 390. 

Be — Be icise with speed: 

A fool at forty is a fool indeed. 

Young, Love of Fame, satire ii. 1. 3S2. 

* Called by her " A Summary of Lord Lyttelton's Advice to a Lady." 
" The counsels of a friend, Belinda, hear," &c. 



38 BE— BEARD. 

Be — Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise. 

Francis Quarles, Emblems, bk. ii. I. 2. 

Be — To be, or not to be : that is the question : — 
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer 
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. 
Or to take amis against a sea of troubles, 
And, by opposing, end them ? To die : to sleep ; 
No more; — and, by a sleep, to say we end 
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks 
That flesh is heir to; 'tis a consummation 
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep ; 
To sleep: perchance to dream; — ay, there's the rub ; 
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, 
"When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, 
Must give us pause. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 1. 

Beadle — A very beadle to a humorous sigh. 

Shaks. Love's Labour's Lost, act iii. sc. 1. 

Beads — Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, 

Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw : 

Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, 

A little louder, but as empty quite ; 

Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, 

And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age : 

Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, 

Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. 

Poke, Ep. ii. 1. 2:5. 
Bear — Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, 

Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. 

Pope, Ep. to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prol. to the Satires, 1. 197. 

Bear — Ye Gods, it doth amaze me, 

A man of such a feeble temper should 
So get the start of the majestic world 
And bear the palm alone. Shaks. Julius Casar, act i. sc. 2. 

Bear — They've bought the skin, but who's to kill the bear. 

Ca>~>"i>~g, Anti-Jacobin, p. 44. 
Bear — To bear is to conquer our fate. 

T. Campbell, Scene in Argyleshire, last line. 
Beard — Such a beard as hung in candles 
Down to Diogenes' sandals. 

Cawthorxe, Birth and Education of Genius. 



BEARD— BE A UTIES. 39 

Beard — Such a heard as youth gave out 

Had left in ashes. Texxyscx, Idylls of King Vivien. 

Beard — Loose his beard, and hoary hair 
Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air. 

Gtbay, The Bard, pt. i. st. 2. 

Beard — And dar'st thou then 

To beard the lion in his den, 
The Douglas in his hall '? Scott. Marmion. can. vi. st. 14. 

Beards — 'Tis merry in hall 
When beards wag all. 

T. Tussbb, Five Hand. Points of Good Husbandry, ch. xlvi. 

Beast — It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies — love. 

Shaks. Merry Wives of Windsor, act i. sc. 1. 

Beast — More upward working out the beast, 
And let the ape and tiger die. 

Tehnyson, In Mcmoriam, can. cxvii. v. ;. 

Beast — A righteous man regardeih the life of his beast; but the 
tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. Prov. xii. 10. 

Beast— -A beeist, theit wants discourse of reason. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. 

Beaumont — Eenowned Spenser, lie a thought more nio-h 
To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie 
A little nearer Spenser, to make room 
For Shakspeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb. 

Will. Basse, On Shakspeare. 

Beaumont — Soul of the age ! 

The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage ! 
My Shakspeare, rise ! I will not lodge thee by 
Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie 
A Utile further, to make thee a room. 

Bex Jonson, To the Memory of Shaks. 

Beauties — So stands the statue that enchants the world, 
So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, 
The mingled beauties of exulting Greece. 

Thomson, The Seasons, Summer, 1. 1346. 

Beauties — The pale unr'pened beauties of the North. 

Addisox, Cato, act i. sc. 1. 



40 BE A UTIES—BEA UTY. 

Beauties — You meaner beauties of the night, 
That poorly satisfy our eyes 

More by your number than your light. 

Sir H. Wotton, To his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia'. 

Beautiful — She's beautiful; and therefore to be wooed: 
She is a woman; therefore to be won. 

Shaks. King Henry VI, part i. act v. sc. 3. 

Beautiful — Beautiful as sweet ; 

And young as beautiful ; and soft as young; 
And gay as soft ; and innocent as gay. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night iii. 1. 8i. 

Beautiful — If God hath made this world so fair, 
Where sin and death abound, 
How beautiful beyond compare 
Will Paradise be found ! 

J. Montgomery, The Earth full of Gods Goodness, 

Beautiful — Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Beautifully — The air and harmony of shape express, 

Fine by degrees, and beautifully less. Prior$ Henry and Emma. 

Beauty — And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. 

Beattie, Hermit. 

Beauty — A thing of beauty is a joy for ever; 
Its loveliness increases ; it will never 
Pass into nothingness. J. Keats, Endymion, 1. l. 

Beauty — 'Tis beauty calls and glory leads the way. 

Nath. Lee, Alexander the Great, act ii. sc. 2. 

Beauty — Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, 
And beauty draws us with a single hair. 

Pope, The Rape of the Lock, can. ii. 1. 27. 
Beauty — Fills the air around with beauty. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. 24. 

Beauty — To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for 
mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. 

Isaiah lxi. 3. 

Beauty — 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, 
But the joint force and full result of all. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 245. 



BEAUTY. 41 

Beauty — -He hath a daily beauty in his life. 

Shaks. Othello, act v. sc. 1. 

Beauty — Underneath this stone doth lie 
As much beauty as could die; 
Which in life did harbour give 
To more virtue than doth live. 

Be>~ Jonsonj Epitaph on Elizabeth. 

Beauty — Beauty is but a flower, 
Which wrinkles will devour. 

Thomas Xash, Summer s Last Will and Testament, 1. 600. 

Beauty — Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; 
Both most are valued where they best are known. 

Lytteltox, Soliloquy of a Beauty, 1. n. 

Beauty — Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all 
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. 

J. Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn. 

Beauty — He who hath bent him o'er the dead 
Ere the first day of death is fled, 
The first dark day of nothingness, 
The last of danger and distress, 
Before Decay's effacing fingers 
Have swept the lines where beauty lingers. 

Bykox, The Giaour, 1. 6s. 

Beauty — For where is any author in the world 
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye ? 
Learning is but an adjunct to ourself. 

Shaks. Love's Labour's Lost, act iv. sc. s. 

Beauty — She walks in beauty, like the night 
Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; 
And all that's best of dark and bright 

Meet in her aspect and her eyes : 
Thus mellowed to that tender light 
Which heaven to gaudy day denies. 

Byrox, Hebrew Melodies, 

Beauty — Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears. 

Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, pt. ii. 1. 95. 

Beauty — 'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white 
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. 

Shaks. Twelfth Night, act i. sc. 5. 



42 BEAUTY— BEE. 

Beauty — It is not beauty I demand, 
A crystal brow, the moon's despair, 
Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand, 

Nor mermaid's yellow pride of hair. Thomas Carew, A Song. 

Beauty — And forth she went, a shop for merchandise, 
Full of rich stuff, but none tor sale exposed; 
A veil obscur'd the sunshine of her eyes : 

The rose within herself her sweetness closed. 
Each ornament about her seemly lies 

By curious chance, or careless art, composed ; 
For what she most neglects, most curious prove — 
So beauty 's help d by nature, heaven, and love. 

Tasso, Recovery qfJeruseilem, Fairfax's Trans, bk. ii. c. is. 

Beauty's chain — To sigh, yet feel no pain; 
To weep, yet scarce know why ; 
To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, 
Then throw it idly by. Moore, The Blue Stocking. 

Beauty's ensign — Beauty's ensign yet 

Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, 
And death's pale flag is not advanced there. 

Shaks. Borneo and Juliet, act v. sc. 3. 

Beaux — >There none admire, 'tis useless to excel; 
Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle. 

Moore, Soliloquy on a Beauty in the Country. 

Bed — Cos. Pray, now, what may be that same bed of honour? 
Kite. Oh, a mighty large bed ! bigger by half than the great 
bed at Ware — ten thousand people may lie in it together, and 
never feel one another. 

G-. Farquhar, The Recruiting Officer, act i. sc. 1. 

Bed — TT720 goes to bed and does not pray. 

Maketh two nights to every day ! Geo. Herbert, The Temple. 

Bedfellows — Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. 

Shaks. Tempest, act ii. sc. 2. 

Bee — How doth the little busy bee 
Improve each shiniug hour, 
And gather honey all the day, 

From ev'ry op'ning flower ! I. Watts, Divine Songs, song xx. 

Bee — Where the bee sucks, there suck I; 

In a cowslip's bell I lie. Shaks. Tempest, act v. sc. 1. 



BEER— BEGINNING. 43 

Beer — To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer. 

Shaks. Othello, act ii. sc. 1. 

Bees — Sweet is every sound, 

Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet ; 
Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, 
The moan of doves in immemorial elms, 
And murmuring of innumerable bees. 

Tennyson, The Princess, can. vii. 

Beggar — When Xing Cophetua loved the beggar maid. 

Shaks. Borneo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 1. 

Beggar — Silence in love bewrays more woe 
Than words, though ne'er so witty; 
A beggar that is dumb, you know, 
May challenge double pity. 

Sir \Y. Raleigh, The Silent Lover. 

Beggar — A beggar begs that never begged before. 

Shaks. Bi chard II, act v. sc. 1. 

Beggared — For her own person, 

It beggared all description. 

Shaks, Antony and Cleopatra, act ii. sc. 2. 

Beggarly — A beggarly account of empty boxes. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act v. sc. 1. 

Beggarly — The beggarly last doit. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. v. Winter Morning Walk. 

Beggars — When beggars die, there are no comets seen; 
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. 

Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act ii. sc. 2. 

Beggary — There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. 

Shaks. Antony and Cleopatra, act i. sc. 1. 

Beginning — That is the true beginning of our end. 

Shaks. Midsummer -Night's Dream, prologue. 

Beginning — The beginning of the end. Talleyrand. 

Beginning — He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. 
Horace (Smart,) Epistle, bk. i.* 



Dimidium facti qni coepit habet. — Horace, ep. ii. bk. i. 40. 



44 BEGONE— BELLS. 

Begone — Begone, dull cart. I prithee begone from me: 
Begone, dull care, thou and I shall never agree. 

From Playfokd's Musical Companion. 

Beguile — And often did beguile her of her tears. 

Shaks. Or hello, act i. sc. 3. 

Belated — Faery elves. 

Whose midnight revels,, by a forest side, 

Or fountain, some lasant sees. 

Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon 

Sits arbitress. Mil/ton, Paradise Lost. bk. i. L :s:. 

Belial — - When night 

Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons 

Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. Ibid. 1. y.c. 

Belief— Stands not within the prospect of belief. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 3. 

Bell — But the sound of the church-going bell 
Those valleys and rocks never heard, 
Never sighed at the sound of a knell, 
Or smiled when a Sabbath appeared. 
Cowpee, Lines supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk. 

Bell — Silence that dreadful bell : it frights the isle 

From her propriety. Shaks. Othello, act ii. sc. z. 

Bell — Tet the first bringer of unwelcome news 

Hath but a losing office : and his tongue 
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, 
Remember 'd tolling a departing friend. 

Shaks. King Henri/ IV, part ii. act i. sc. i. 

Bell — The bell strikes one. We take no note of time 
But from its loss. To give it then a tongue 
Is wise in man. Young, Night Thoughts, night i. 1. 55. 

Bell — The tocsin of the soul, " beU. 

Byron, Don Juan, canto v. st. to. 

Bells — Xow see that noble and most sovereign reason, 
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. i. 

Bells — How soft the music of those village belts I 

Cowpee, The Task. bk. vi. 1. :. 

Bells — Those evening bells! Those evening bells! 

How many a tale their music tells ! Moore, Songs, vol. iv. 



BELLY— BEST. 45 

Belly — "Whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame. 

Philippians iii. 19. 

Belly-full — Every Jack-slave hath his belly-full of fighting. 

Shaks. Cymbeline, act ii. sc. 1. 

Bench — A little bench of heedless bishops here, 
And there a chancellor in embryo, 

Will. Shexstoxe, The Schoolmistress. 

Bendemeer's stream — There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer s 
stream. Thomas Moore, The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. 

Beneath — Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, 

Beneath the Good how far — but far above the Great. 

Gray, The Progress of Poetry, pt. iii. st. 3. 

Beneath — Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening 
gale. Burxs, The Cotter s Saturday Night. 

Benedick — How dost thou, Benedick the married man ? 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act v. sc. 4. 

Benevolence — The man -whom benevolence warms 

Is an angel who lives but to bless. Bloomfield, Banks of Wye. 

Bent — They fool me to the top of my bent. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Bermoothes — From the still-vexed Bermoothes. 

Shaks. Tempest, act i. sc. 2. 

Berries — / come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, 
And, with forced fingers rude, 
Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 

Miltox, Lycidas, 1. 3. 

Berries — Two lovely berries moulded on one stem. 

Shaks. Midsummer-Night ] s Dream, act iii. sc. 2. 

Best — The best good man with the ivorst-natured muse. 

Rocpiester, An Allusion to the Tenth Satire of the 
First Book of Horace. 

Best — The best in this kind are but shadows. 

Shaks. Midsummer-Night's Dream, act v. sc. 1. 

Best — They say, best men are moulded out of faults. 

Shaks. Measure for Measure, act v. sc. j. 



46 BEST— BEZONIAN. 

Best — The best of men 

That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer ; 
A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, 
The first true gentleman that ever breathed. 

Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, pt. i. act i. sc. 12. 

Better — Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled 
ox, and hatred therewith. Proverbs xv. 17. 

Better — I could have better spared a better man. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act v. sc. 4. 

Better — Verily 

I swear 'tis better to be lowly born, 
And range with humble livers in content, 
Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, 
And wear a golden sorrow. Shaks. K. Henry VIII, act ii. sc. 3. 

Better — Though his tongue 

Dropt manna, and Could make the worse 
Appear the better reason. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. 113. 

Between — Bolus arrived, and gave a doubtful tap, 

Between a single and a double rap. Colmax, Broad Grins. 

Betwixt — And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, 
He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly, 
To bring a slovenly, unhandsome corse 
Betwixt the wind and his nobility. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act i. sc. 3. 

Bevis — Their theme the merry minstrels made 

Of Ascapart and Bevis Bold* Scott, Lay of Last Minstrel. 

Beware — Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, 
Live till to-morrow, will have passed away. 

Cowper, The Needless Alarm, moral. 

Beware — Beware 

Of entrance to a quarrel ; but, being in, 
Bear't that th' opposed may beware of thee. 
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice : 
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 3. 

Bezonian — Under which king, Bezonian? Speak, or die. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part ii. act v. sc. 3. 



* Bevis of Southampton, a hero of romance, in Drayton's Polyolbion, bk. ii. 



BIBLE— BIRTH, 47 

Bible — The doctrine of chances is the Bible of the fool. 

Time? yews-paper. 

Bible — Carries her Bible tucked beneath his arm, 
And hides his hands to keep his ringers warm. 

CoWPER, Truth, 1. 147. 

Big — The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, 
And heavily in clouds brings on the day, 
The great, the important day, big with the fate 
Of Cato and of Rome. Addison, Cato, act i. sc. i. 

Bigness — And so I penned 

It down, until at last it came to be, 
For length and breadth, the bigness which you see. 

Buhta» 3 Apology for his Book. 

Billows — Strongly it bears us along, in swelling and limitless 
billows, 
Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean. 
Coleridge, The Homeric Hexameter. 

Binding — And, binding Nature fast in fate. 

Left free the human will. Pope, Universal Prayer. 

Bird — Some say that ever "gainst that season comes 
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, 
The bird of dawning singeth all night long. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. i. 

Bird — For a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which 
hath wings shall tell the matter. Eccles. x. 20. 

Bird — Sweet bird, that shunnest the noise of folly, 

Most musical, most melancholy ! Milton, II Penseroso, 1. 6i. 

Birds — For time will teach thee soon the truth, 
There are no birds in last year's nest ! 

Longfellow, It is not always May. 

Birth— (ha birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. 

Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality, st. 5. 

Birth — "While man is growing, life is in decrease; 
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. 
Our birth is nothing but our death begun. 

Young* Night Thoughts, night v. 1. ::;. 



48 BISCUIT— BLADDERS. 

Biscuit — One that hath been a courtier, 

And says, if ladies be but young and fair, 
They have the gift to know it ; and in his brain, 
Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit 
After a voyage, he hath strange places crammed 
"With observation. Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7. 

Bishopric — Scarce can a bishopric forepass them bye, 
But that it must be gelt in privacy. 

Spenser, Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubbard's Tale. 

Bitter — Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, 

Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Johxsox, London, 1. 166. 

Bitterness — But hushed be every thought that springs 
From out the bitterness of things. 

Wordsworth, Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces, xiii. 

Black— *-Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray, 
Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may. 

Mldbletox, Witch, act ii. 
Quoted or imitated in Shakespeare's Macbeth. 

Black — The sun had long since in the lap 
Of Thetis taken out his nap, 
And, like a lobster boiled, the morn 
From black to red began to turn. 

Butler, Hudibras, part ii. can. ii. 1. 29. 

Blackberries — Give you a reason on compulsion ? If reasons were 
as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon 
compulsion. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act ii. sc. 4. 

Blackbird — Besides, 'tis known he could speak Greek 
As naturally as pigs squeak ; 
That Latin was no more difficile 
Than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle. 

Butler, Hudibras, part i. can. i. 1. 51. 
Blackguards — Arcades ambo;* id est, blackguards both. 

Byrox, Bon Juan, can, iv. st. 93. 
Bladder — A plague of sighing and grief! it blows a man up like a 

bladder. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act ii. sc. 4. . 

Bladders — Books bear him up awhile, and make him try 
To swim with bladders of philosophy. 

Kochester, Epistle to Edward Howard. 

* Ambo florentes aetatibus, Arcades ambo. — Virgil, Ed. vii. 4. 



BLADE— BLESS IX GS. 49 

Blade — 'Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, 
Xe'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. 

Moore, On the Death of Sheridan. 

Blades — Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of 
grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew 
before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential 
service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put to- 
gether. Swift, Gulliver s Travels, Brobdingnag, ch. 7, 

'Blameless — How happy is the blameless vestal 9 s lot! 
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. 

Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 1. 207. 

Blank — Duke. And what's her history? 
Viola. A blank, my lord. 

Shaks. Twelfth Night, act ii. sc. 4. 

Blast — Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more ; 
Or close the wall up with our English dead ! 
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man 
As modest stillness and humility : 
But when the blast of war blows in our ears, 
Then imitate the action of the tiger : 
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. 

Shaks. K. Henri/ V, act iii. sc. 1. 

Bleed — Let the gulFd fool the toils of war pursue, 
Where bleed the many to enrich the few. 

Shenstone, Judgment of Hercules, 1. 158. 

Bleeding — "0 Heaven !*' he cried, " my bleeding country save! 9 ' 
Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, pt. i. 1. 359. 

Blessed — TVho breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn* 
And he alone is blessed who ne'er was bom. 

Prior, Solomon, bk. iii. 1. 240. 

Blessed — It is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts xx. 35. 

Blesses — Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury. 

Addison, Cato, act i. sc. 4. 

Blessing — My blessing, like a line of light, 
Is on the waters day and night. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, can. xvii. v. 3. 

Blessings — For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, 
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. 

Congseye, The Mourning Bride, act v. sc. 12. 



50 BLESSINGS— BLISS. 

Blessings — Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, 
Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares, 
The poets, who on earth have made us heirs 
Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! 

"Wordsworth, Personal Talk, st. 4. 

Blessings — How blessings brighten as they take their flight. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night ii. 1. 602. 

Blest — Hope springs eternal in the human breast ; 
Man never is, but always to be blest. 
The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, 
Eests and expatiates in a life to come. Pope, Ep. i. 1. 95. 

Blest — I die — but first I have possessed, 
And, come what may, I have been blest. 

Byrox, The Giaour, 1. nu. 

Blest — Blest paper credit ! last and best supply ! 

That lends corruption lighter wings to fly. Pope, Ep. iii. 1. 39. 

Blind — Be that blind bard, who on the Chian strand, 
By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, 
Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey 
Kise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. 

Coleridge, Fancy in Nubibus. 

Blind — I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. 

Job xxix. is. 

Blind — Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a 
camel. Matt, xxiii. 24. 

Blind — The school-boy heat, 

The blind hysterics of the Celt. 

Texxysox, In Memoriam, can. viii. 

Blind — And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. 

Matt. xv. 14. 

Blind — The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle. 

Byrox, The Bride of Abydos, can. ii. st. 2. 

Bliss — Domestic happiness, thou only bliss 
Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall ! 

Cowper, The Task, The Garden, bk. iii. 

Bliss — Alas ! by some degree of ivoe 
We every bliss must gain ; 
The heart can ne'er a transport know 

That never feels a pain. Lytteltox, So7ig. 



BLISS— BLOOD. 51 

Bliss — Vain, very vain, my weary search to find 
That bliss which only centres in the mind. 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, 1. 423. 

Bliss — That inward eye 

Which is the bliss of solitude. 

Wordsworth, / wandered Lonely. 
Bliss — Bliss teas it in that dawn to be alive, 

But to be young was very heaven. Wordsworth, The Prelude. 

Bliss — Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell; 
Tie virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell. 

W. Collins, Eclogue, i. 1. 5. 

Blockhead — The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, 
With loads of learned lumber in his head. 

Pope, An Essay on Criticism, pt. iii. 1. 53. 

Blood — You cannot get blood out of a stone* Old Proverb. 

Blood — Sensations sweet, 

Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart. 

Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey. 

Blood — The blood will follow where the knfe is driven, 
The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear. 

Young, The Revenge, act v. sc. 1. 

Blood — Her pure and eloquent blood 

Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought 
That one might almost say her body thought. 

Dr. J. Donne, Funeral Elegies on the Progress 
of the Soul, 1. 245. 

Blood — What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? 

Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. Pope, Ep. iv. 1. 215. 

Blood — The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. 

Anonymous. 

Blood — For in my youth I never did apply 
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. 

Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. 3. 

Blood — Blood only serves to wash ambition's hands. 

Byron, Don Juan, can. ix. st. 59. 

* Nemo potest nndo restimenta detrahere. — Latin Proverb. A Scotch 
saying similar to this is, " It is ill takin' the breeks off a Highlandman," i. e. 
he has no breeks. — Ed. 



52 BLOOD— BLOW. 

Blood — Thoughts that would thick my blood. 

Shaks. Winter's Tale, act i. sc. 3. 

Blood — The blood more stirs 

To rouse a lion than to start a hare. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act i. sc. 3. 

Blood — Fallen from his high estate, 
And weltering in his blood ; 
Deserted, at his utmost need, 
By those his former bounty fed ; 
On the hare earth exposed he lies,, 
With not a friend to close his eyes. Dryden, Alex. Feast, 1. 73. 

Blood — Whoso sheddeth ?nan's blood, by man shall his blood be 
shed. Gen. ix. 6. 

Bloody — Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return 
To plague the inventor : this even-handed justice 
Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice 
To our own lips. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 7. 

Bloom — O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move 
The blood of young Desire, and purple light of Love. 

Gray, The Progress of Poesy, pt. i. st. 3. 

Bloomed — Bloom 'd in the winter of her days, 

Like Glastonbury thorn. Sir C. Sedley, Songs. 

Blot — For his chaste muse employed her heaven-taught lyre 
ISone but the noblest passions to inspire, 
Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, 
One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. 

Lord Lyttelton, Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus. 

Blot — E'en copious Dryden wanted or forgot 
The last and greatest art, the art to blot. 

Pope, Imit. of Hor. bk. ii. epistle i. 1. 280. 

Blow — Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks ! rage ! blow ! 

Shaks. King Lear, act iii. sc. 2. 

Blow — Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not, 

Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow? 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. ii. st. 76. 

Blow — Blow, blow, thou winter wind, 
Thou art not so unkind 

As man's ingratitude. Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7. 



BLUE— BODKIN. 53 

Blue — " darkly, deeply, beautifully blue," 

As some one somewhere sings about the sky. 

Byron, Don Juan, can. iv. st. no. 
Blue — The sea, the sea, the open sea ! 

The blue, the fresh, the everfreel B. W. Procter, The Sea. 

Blunder — In men this blunder still you find, 

All think their little set mankind. H. Moore, The Bas-Bleu. 

Blunder — It is a blunder ; it is more than a crime : it is apolitical 
fault — words which I record because they have been repeated 
and attributed to others. J. ForCHE*, From his Memoirs,* 

Blushed — Eather the Boman come again, 

The Saxon, Xorman, and the Dane ; 

In all the chains we ever wore 

'We grieved, we sighed, we wept; we never blushed before. 

Cowley, Essay on the Protector, 
Blushing — Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness! 

This is the state of man. To-day he puts forth 

The tender leaves of hopes, to-morrow blossoms, 

And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : 

The third day comes a frost, a killing frost. 

Shaks. K. Henry VIII, act iii. sc. 2. 
Boast — Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; for thou knowest not 

what a day may bring forth. Prov. xxvii. 1. 

Boast — Such is the patriot' 's boast, where'er we roam, 

His first, best country, ever is at home. 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, 1. ;:. 
Boats — Vessels large may venture more, 

But little boats should keep near shore. Franklin, Poor Bichard, 

Bobbed — And sat upon a rock, and bobbed for a whale. 

W. King, Upon a Giant's Angling. 
Bodkin — There's the respect 

That makes calamity of so long life ; 

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, 

The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, 

The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, 

The insolence of office, and the spurns 

That patient merit of the unworthy takes, 

When he himself might his quietus make 

"With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, 

* This is said to have been previously used by Talleyrand. 



54 BODY— BOOK. 

To grunt and sweat under a weary life, 

But that the dread of something after death — 

The undiscovered country, from whose hourn 

No traveller returns — puzzles the will 

And makes us rather hear those ills we have 

Than fly to others that we know not of? 

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all : 

And thus the native hue of resolution 

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, 

And enterprises of great pith and moment, 

With this regard, their currents turn awry, 

And lose the name of action. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 1. 

Body — For of the soul the body form doth take; 
For soul is form, and doth the body make. 

Spexsee, Hymn in Honour of Beauty, 1. 132. 

Bond — Is it so nominated in the bond? 

Shaks. Merchant of Venice, act iv. sc. 1. 

Bondman — Who is here so base that would be a bondman ? If any, 
speak; for him have I offended. 

Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act iii. sc. 2. 
Bones — Full fathom five thy father lies ; 
Of his bones are coral made; 
Those are pearls that were his eyes; 

Nothing of hini that doth fade 
But doth suffer a sea-change 
Into something rich and strange. Shaks. Tempest, act i. sc. 2. 

Bones — For ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed ap- 
pear beautiful outward, but are within/)/// of dead men's bones. 

Matt, xxiii. 27. 
Bones — The evil that men do lives after them; 
The good is oft interred with their bones. 

Shaks. Julius CcEsar, act iii. sc. 2. 

Bones — An old man, broken with the storms of state, 
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; 
Give him a little earth for charity ! 

Shaks. K. Henry VIII, act iv. sc. 2. 

Booby — When yet was ever found a mother 
Who'd give her booby for another? 

Gay, The Mother, Nurse, and Fairy. 

Book — He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book. 
Shaks. Love's Labour s Lost, act iv. sc. 2. 



BOOK— BOOKS. 55 

Book — As good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a 
man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but lie who de- 
stroys a good book kills reason itself. Milton, Areopagitica. 

Book — Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men 

May read strange matters. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 5. 

Book — Boughs are daily rifled 
By the gusty thieves, 
And the book of Nature 

Getteth short of leaves. Hood, The Seasons. 

Book — A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, 
embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. 

Milton, Areopagitica. 
Book — Often have I sighed to measure 
By myself a lonely pleasure, 
Sighed to think I read a book, 
Only read perhaps by me. 

Words. (To the Small Celandine) From Poems of Fancy. 

Book — The painful warrior, famoused for fight, 
After a thousand victories once foiled, 
Is from the book of honour razed quite, 
And all the rest forgot for which he toiled. 

Shaks. Sonnets, son. xxv. 
Book — "Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print: 
A book's a book, although there's nothing in't. 

Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 1. a. 

Books — Too careless often as our years proceed, 
What friends we sort with or what books we read. 

Cowper, Tirocinium, 1. 123. 

Books — Books cannot always please, however good; 
Minds are not ever craving for their food. 

Crabbe, The Borough, letter xxiv. Schools. 

Books — He might have been a clever man by nature, but he laid 
so many books on his head that his brain had not room to move. 

Robert Hall, Life. 

Books — Of making many books there is no end; and much study 
is a weariness of the flesh. Eccles. xii. 12. 

Books — Learning hath gained most by those books by which the 
printers have lost. Fuller [The Virtuous Lady), Of Books. 

Books — So?ne books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and 
some few to be chewed and digested. Bacon, Ess. i. Of Studies. 



56 BOOKS— BORN. 

Books — Up ! up ! my friend, and quit your books, 
Or surely you'll grow double ; 
Up ! up ! my friend, and clear your looks ; 
Why all this toil and trouble ? 

Wordsworth, The Tables Turned. 

Books — The spectacles of books, 

Dryden, Essay on Dramatic Poetry, 
Books — My only books 
Were woman's looks, 
And folly's all they've taught me. 

Moore, The Time I've Lost, Sfc. 

Books — Books which are no books. 

Lamb, Detached Thoughts on Books. 

Books — Here the heart 

May give a useful lesson to the head, 
And Learning wiser grow without his books. 

Cowper, bk. vi. Winter Walk at Noon, 

Bo-peep — Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep 
A little out, and then, 
As if they played at Bo-peep, 

Did soon draw in again.* Herrick, On her Feet. 

Bores — Society is now one polished horde, 

Formed of two mighty tribes, the bores and bored. 

Byron, Don Juan, can. xiii. st. 95. 

Born — Born only to consume the fruits of the earth, f 

Horace (Smart). 

Born — And better had they ne'er been born, 
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. 

Scott, The Monastery, vol. i. ch. 12. 

Born — Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred. Byron, A Sketch. 

Born — I was not born under a rhyming planet. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act v. sc. 2. 

* Her feet beneath her petticoat 
Like little mice stole in and out,* 

As if they feared the light ; 
But oh ! she dances such a way, 
No sun upon an Easter day 
Is half so fine a sight. 

Sir John Suckling, Ballad on a Wedding. 
t Fruges consumere nati. — Hor. Ep. ii. bk. i. 1. 27. 

* Herrick plagiarised and spoilt this. 



BORN— BOSTON. 57 

Born — Full many a gem of purest ray serene, 
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; 
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, 
And waste its sweetness on the desert air. 

Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard. 

Borne — In the lost battle, 

Borne down by the flying, 
TVhere mingles war's rattle 

With groans of the dying. Scott, Marmion, can. iii. St. 10. 

Borrower — Xeither a borrower nor a lender be; 
For loan oft loses both itself and friend, 
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 
This above all : to thine own self be true ; 
And it must follow, as the night the day, 
Thou canst not then be false to any man. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 3. 

Borrowing — He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. 

Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack. 

Bosom — Xo farther seek his merits to disclose, 
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, 
(There they alike in trembling hope repose,) 
The bosom of his Father and his God. 

Gratis Elegy, The Epitaph. 

Bosom — O bosom, black as death ! 

limed soul, that, struggling to be free, 
Art more engaged ! Help, angels ! Make assay ! 
Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, 
Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe ! 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 3. 

Bosom — My bosom 1 s lord sits lightly in his throne. 

Shaks, Borneo and Juliet, act v. sc. 1. 

Bosomed — Meadows trim with daisies pied, 
Shallow brooks and rivers wide, 
Towers and battlements it sees, 
Bosomed high in tufted trees. Milton, E Allegro, 1. 75. 

Bosoms — Come home to -mens business and bosoms. 

Bacon, Dedication to the Essays, ed. 1615. 

Boston — Solid men of Boston, make no long orations; 
Solid men of Boston, drink no deep potations. 

Morris, Billy Pitt and the Farmer. 



58 BOTANIZE— BOURBON. 

Botanize — One that would peep* and botanize 
Upon his mother's grave. 

Wordsworth, A Poet's Epitaph, st. 5. 

Both — And both were young, and one was beautiful. 

Byron, The Dream, st. 2. 

Both — Both were so young, and one so innocent, 
That bathing passed for nothing. 

Byron, Don Juan, can. ii. v. 172. 

Bottle — Should next campaign 

Send us to Him that made us, boys, 
We're free from pain ; 

But should we remain, 
A bottle and kind landlady 
Soothes all again. 

Gen. Wolfe (The Night before his Death). 

Bottom — Bless thee, Bottom ! bless thee ! thou art translated. 

Shaks. Midsummer -Night's Dream, act iii. sc. 1. 

Bounds — Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty. . 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act iv. sc. 2. 

Bounty — Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, 
Heav'n did a recompense as largely send : 
He gave to Mis'ry, all he had, a tear, 

He gained from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. 

Gray's Elegy, The Epitaph. 

Bourbon — Nobles and heralds, by your leave, 
Here lies what once was Matthew Prior ; 
The son of Adam and of Eve : 

Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher ? 

Prior, A Jocular Epitaph on Himself.* 



Johnnie Carpegie lais here, 

..Descendit of Adam & Eve. 

Gif ony man can gaug hieher, 

I'se willing gie him leve. 

Quoted by Mr. Singer, Notes and 

Queries, 1st Series, vol. i. p. 482. 
Prior wrote the following for his own tombstone : — 

" To me was given to die. To thee 'tis given 
To live ; alas ! one moment sets us even : — 
Mark ! how impartial is the gift of Heaven !" 



BOWELS— BRAGGART. 59 

Bowels — Earth, behold, I kneel upon thy bosom, 
And bend my flowing eyes to stream upon 
Thy face, imploring thee that thou wilt yield ; 
Open thy bowels of compassion. 

Congreye, Mourning Bride, act iv. sc. 7. 

Bowels — And that it was great pity, so it was, 
That villanous saltpetre should be digged 
Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, 
Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed 
So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, 
He would himself have been a soldier. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act i. sc. 3. 

Bowels — Thus far into the bowels of the land 
Have we marched on without impediment. 

Shaks. K. Richard III, act v. sc. 2. 

Bowl — There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, 
The feast of reason and the flow of soul. 

Pope, bk. ii. sat. i. 1. 127. 

Bowl — Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be 
broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel 
broken at the cistern. Ecclesiastes xii. 6. 

Boy — Ah, happy years ! once more who would not be a boy? 

Byrox, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. ii. st. 23. 

Boy — Though the deep heart of existence beat for ever like a 
boy's. Tennysox, Locksley Hall. 

Boyish — The time hath been, a boyish blushing time, 
When modesty was scarcely held a crime. 

Chas. Churchill, Times, 1. 1. 

Boys — And when with envy time transported 
Shall think to rob us of our joys, 
You'll in your girls again be courted, 

And I'll go wooing in my boys. Percy's Eeliques, Winefreda. 

t 
Bozrah — Who is this that cometh from Edom, with d^ed garments 
from Bozrah ? Isaiah lxiii. 1. 

Braggart — 0, I could play the woman with mine eyes, 

And braggart with my tongue I Shaks. Macbeth, act iv. sc. 3. 



60 BRAIN— BRAVE. 

Brain — Is this a dagger which I see before me, 
The handle toward my hand ? * * # 
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible 
To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but 
A dagger of the mind, a false creation 
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? 

Shaks. Macbeth, act ii. sc. 1. 

Brain — Shall quips, and sentences, and these paper bullets of the 
brain awe a man from the career of his humour? 

Shaks. Much Ado About Nothing, act ii. sc. 3. 

Brain — Brain him with his lady s fan. 

Shaks. K< Henry IV, part i. act ii. sc. 3. 

Brain — Memory, the warder of the brain. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 7. 
Brain — This is the very coinage of your brain. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4. 
Brain — Within the book and volume of my brain. Ibid, act i. sc. 5. 
Brains — Cudgel thy brains no more about it. Ibid, act v. sc. l. 

Brains — God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, 
to steal away their brains. Shaks. Othello, act ii. sc. 3. 

Brains — The times have been 

That, when the brains were out, the man would die, 
And there an end ; but now they rise again, 
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, 
And push us from our stools. Shaks. Macbeth, act iii. sc. 4. 

Brains — "What do you mix your colours with, Mr. Opie?" 
" With brains, sir." Dr. J. Browne, HorcB Subsecivce. 

Brandy — Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men ; but he who 
aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. 

Johnson, BosivelVs Life of Johnson. 

Brass — Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues 

We write in water. Shaks. K. Henry VIII, act iv. sc. 2. 

Brass — As sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1 Cor. xiii. 1. 

Brave — Xone but the brave deserves the fair. 

Dryden, Alexander s Feast, 1. 15. 
Brave — How sleep the brave who sink to rest, 

By all their country's wishes blessed? Collins, Ode in 1746. 

Brave — The combat deepens. On, ye brave, 

Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Campbell, Hohenlinden. 



BEE A CH—BBEA TH. 61 

Breach — But, to my mind, — though I am native here, 
And to the manner born, — it is a custom 
More honour d in the breach than the observance. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 4. 

Bread — Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread. 

Shaks. K. Henri/ V, act iv. sc. 1. 

Bread — Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is 
pleasant. Prov. ix. lr. 

Bread — Man shall not live by bread alone. Matt. iv. 4, 

Bread — Cast thy bread upon the waters ; for thou shalt find it 
after many days. Eccles. xi. l. 

Bread — He was the Word that spake it ; 
He took the bread and brake it ; 
And what that Word did make it, 
I do believe and take it.* Dr. Donne, Diu. Poems on the Sac. 

Break — Break, break, break, 

At the foot of thy crags, sea ! 
But the tender grace of a day that is dead 

Will never come back to me. Tennyson, Poems. 

Breakfast — You may as well say that's a valiant flea that dare eat his 
breakfast on the lip of a lion. Shaks. K. Henri/ V, act iii. sc. ■:. 

Breast — He that has light within his own clear breast 
May sit f th" centre and enjoy bright day; 
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, 
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun. Miltox, Comus, 1. 3Si. 

Breastplate — What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted? 
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; 
And he but naked, though locked up in steel, 
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 

Shaks. K. Henri/ VI, part ii. act iii. sc. 2. 

Breath — 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, 
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : 
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade, 
A breath can make them, as a breath has made; 
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, 
When once destroyed, can never be supplied. 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, 1. 51. 



" * Commonly attributed to Queen Elizabeth in her youth; wrong]y quoted 
in Goldsmith's England, 38th Edition. 



62 BREA TH— BRETHREN. 

Breath — "When the good man yields his breath 
(r^or the good man never dies). 

Montgomery, The Wanderer of Switzerland. 

Breath — One more unfortunate 
Weary of breath, 
Rashly importunate, 

Gone to her death. Hood, The Bridge of Sighs. 

Breathes — And all the landscape — earth, and sky, and sea — 
Breathes like a bright-eyed face that laughs out openly. 

Leigh Huxt, Rimini, can. 1. 

Breathes — Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, 
WTio never to himself hath said, 
This is my own, my native land ? 

Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, can. vi. st. 1. 

Breathing — But animate with deity alone, 
In deathless glory lives the breathing stone. 

Milmaw, Belvidere Apollo, 1. 12. 
Breech — As quick as lightning, in the breech, 
Just in the place u-here honour's lodged, 
As wise philosophers have judged, 
Because a kick in that place more 
Hurts honour than deep wounds hefore. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. ii. can. iii. 1. loer. 

Breeches — A shilling, breeches, and ehimseras dire. 

Phillips, Splendid Shilling, 1. 7. 

Breeches — Without black velvet breeches, what is man ? 

Bramstox, Man of Taste. 

Breeches — King Stephen was a worthy peer, 
His breeches cost him but a crown ; 
He held them sixpence all too dear, 
With that he called the tailor lown. 

Shaks. Othello, act ii. sc. 3. 
Breed — Eome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods. 

Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act i. sc. 2. 
Brentford — United, yet divided, twain at once — 
So sit two kings of Brentford on one throne. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. i. The Sofa. 

Brethren — Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to 

dwell together in unity ! Psalm cxxxiii. 1. 



BREVITY— BRIGHT. 63 

Brevity — Brevity is the soul of wit, Shaks. Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2. 

Bribe — Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, 
He had not the method of making a fortune. 

Gray, On his Own Character. 

Bricks — Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and the 
bricks are alive at this day to testify it. 

Shaks. K. Henry VI, part ii. act iv. sc. 2. 

Bride — Beautiful Venice ! bride of the Sea. 

J. E. Carpenter, Songs. 
Bridge — I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; 
A palace and a prison on each hand. 

Byrox, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. 1. 

Brief — Hamlet. Is this the prologue, or the poesy of a ring ? 
Ophelia. 'Tis brief, my lord. 
Hamlet. As woman's love. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Brief— Brief as the lightning in the collied night, 
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, 
And, ere a man hath power to say, Behold ! 
The jaws of darkness do devour it up : 
So quick bright things come to confusion. 

Shaks. Midsummer-Night's Dream, act i. sc. 1. 
Briers — 0, how full of briers is this icorking-day world! 

Shaks. As You Like It, act i. sc. 3. 

Brigade — " Forward the Light Brigade! 
Charge for the guns !" he said : 
Into the valley of death 
Kode the Six Hundred. 

Texxysox, Charge of the Light Br 



Bright — Failed the bright promise of your early days. 

Heber, Palestine. 
Bright — By Heaven, methinks it were an easy leap 
To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon; 
Or dive into the bottom of the deep, 
Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, 
And pluck up drowned honour by the locks. 

Shaks. King Henry IV, part i. act i. sc. 3. 

Bright — Bright Apollo's lute strung with his hair. 

Shaks. Loves Labour's Lost, act iv. sc. 3. 



64 BRIGHT— BROOK. 

Bright — 'Twere all one 

That I should love a bright particular star 
And think to wed it ; he is so above me. 

Shaks. AIVs Well that Ends Well, act i. sc. 1. 

Bright — There's not in the wide world a valley so sweet 
As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet, 

Moore, The Meeting of the Waters. 

Bright-eyed — Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, 
Scatters from her pictured urn 
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. 

Gray, The Progress of Poesy, part ii. st. 3. 

Brightest— Brightest and best of the sons of the morning ! 
Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid. 

Heber, Christmas Hymn. 

Britannia — Britannia needs no bulwarks, 
No towers along the steep ; 
Her march is o'er the mountain-waves, 

Her home is on the deep. Campbell, Ye Mariners of England. 

Britannia — Eule, Britannia, Britannia rules the waves ; 
Britons never will be slaves. THOMson, Alfred, act ii. sc. 5. 

Broad-based — Broad-based upon her people's will, 
And compassed by the inviolate sea. 

Tennyson, Dedication of Poems. 
Broadcloth — An honest man, close buttoned to the chin, 
Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within. 

Cowper, Epistle to Joseph Hill. 
Brook — Standing, with reluctant feet, 
Where the brook and river meet, 
Womanhood and childhood fleet. Longfellow, Maidenhood. 

Brook — The moon looks 
On many brooks ; 
The brook can see no moon but this. 

Moore, While gazing on the Moon's Light. 
Brook — A noise like of a hidden brook 
In the leafy month of June. 

Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, part v. 
Brook — Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, 

Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook ! 

Hunt, Politics and Poetics. 



BEIT HER— BUCKRAM. 65 

Blither — His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony; 
Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither : 

They had been fou for weeks together. Burns, Tam O'Shanter. 

Brother — Affliction's sons are brothers in distress ; 
A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss ! 

Burns, A Winter s Night. 

Brother's keeper — Am I my brother s keeper? Gen. iv. 9. 

Brotherhood — Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, 
And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song. Keats, Epistles. 

Brotherhood — Monastic brotherhood, upon rock aerial. 

"Wordsworth, The Excursion, bk. iii. 

Brothers — Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping some- 
thing new. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 

Brows — Where sits our sulky, sullen dame, 
Gathering her brows like gathering storm, 
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. Burns, Tam O'Shanter. 

Bruised — A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax 

shall he not quench. Isaiah xlii. 3. 

Brutus — For Brutus is an honourable man; 

So are they all, all honourable men. 

Shaks. Julius CcEsar, act iii. sc. 2. 
Bubbles — The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, 

And these are of them. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 3. 

Bubbling — A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry 

Of some strong swimmer in his agony. 

Byron, Don Juan, can. ii. st. 53. 

Bucket — The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, 
The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. 

Eliza Cook.* 

Buckets — From reveries so airy, from the toil 
Of dropping buckets into empty wells, 
And growing old in drawingjiothing up. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. iii. The Garden. 

Buckram — Thou knowest my old ward; here I lay, and thus I bore 
my point. Four rogues in buckram let drive at me. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act ii. sc. 4. 

* Also claimed by an American author, Woochvorth. 



66 BUD— BURDEN. 

Bud — Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, 
Death came with friendly care ; 
The opening bud to heaven conveyed, 
And bade it blossom there. Coleridge, Epitaph on an Infant. 

Bugle-horn — Where, where was Koderick then ? 
One blast upon his bugle-horn 
Were worth a thousand men. 

Scott, The Lady of the Lake, can. vi. st. is. 

Bugles — Our bugles sang truce, for the night cloud had lowered, 
And sentinel stars set their watch in the sky. 

Campbell, The Soldier s Dream. 

Builded — He builded better than he knew. Emerson, The Problem. 

Built — I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, 
Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. 
I said, " soul, make merry and carouse, 

Dear soul, for all is well." Texxysox, Palace of Art. 

Built — He knew 

Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. 

Milton, Lycidas, 1. 10. 

Built — Built God a church, and laughed His word to scorn. 

Cowper, Retirement. 
Built — Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark. 

Milton, Lycidas, 1. 101. 
Bulwark — The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest 
defence and ornament ; it is its ancient and natural strength, — 
Refloating bulwark of our island. 

Sir W. Blackstoxe, Commentaries, vol. i. p. 418. 

Burden— Which have borne the burden and heat of the day. 

Matt. xx. 12. 
Burden — Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time 

Slides in verse, and hitches in a rhyme ; 

Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, 

And the sad burden of some merry song. 

Pope, bk. ii. sat. i. 1. :e. 
Burden — That blessed mood, 

In which the burden of the mystery, 

In which the heavy and the weary weight 

Of all this unintelligible world 

Is lightened. Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey. 



BURDEN— BY. 67 

Burden — For every man shall bear his own burden. Gal. vi. 5. 

Burden — And the grasshopper shall be a burden. Eccles. xii. 5. 

Burglary — Flat burglary as ever was committed ! 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act iv. sc. i. 

Burnished — Mislike me not for my complexion, 
The shadowed livery of the burnish' d sun. 

Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act ii. sc. 1. 

Burnt — The light aerial gallery, golden railed, 

Burnt like a fringe of fire. Tennyson, Palace of Art. 

Burst — Let me not burst in ignorance ! 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 4. 

Bush — Good wine needs no bush. Shaks. As You Like It, epilogue. 

Bush — Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind ; 
The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 

Shaks. K. Henry VI, part iii. act v. sc. 6. 

Bushel — Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, 
but on a candlestick ; and it giveth light unto all that are in the 
house. Matt. v. 15. 

Busy — Towered cities please us then, 

And the busy hum of men. Milton, L' Allegro, 1. 117. 

Butter — She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. Judges v. 25. 

Butterfly — Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel, 
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? 

Pope, Prol. to the Sat. 1. 307. 

Button — On Fortune's cap we're not the very button. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act ii. sc. 1. 

Buy — Buy the truth, and sell it not. Prov. xxiii. 23. 

By — By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, 
By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, 
By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, 
By strangers honoured, and by strangers mourned. 

Pope, To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. 



CABINED— CAESAR. 




ABIDED — Cabined y cribbed, confined, bound in 
To saucy doubts and fears. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act iii. sc. 4. 

Cadrnean — A Cadmean victory.* Greek Proverb. 

Ccesar — Imperious Ccesar, dead, and turned to clay, 
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. 1. 

Ccesar — Ccesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell — 
and George the Third (" Treason ! " cried the Speaker) may profit 
by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it. 

Patrick Henry, Speech, 1765. 

Ccesar — Put a tongue 

In every wound oj Ccesar that should move 
The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. 

Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act iii. sc. 2. 

Ccesar — Not that I loved Ccesar less, but that I loved Eome more. 

Ibid, act iii. sc. 2. 

Ccesar — But yesterday, the ivord of Ccesar might 
Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, 
And none so poor to do him reverence. 

Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act iii. sc. 2. 

Ccesar — Ccesar s wife should be above suspicion. 

Langhorne, Plutarch, Vit. Cces. ch. 10. 



* A victory in which the conquerors suffered as much as the defeated. 
KaoiASir, Ttfv/x*]. — HekODOTUS, i. 166. 



C & S A R— CALUMNY. 69 

Ccssar — One self-approving hour whole years outweighs 
Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas : 
And more true joy Marcellus exiled feels, 
Than C&sar with a Senate at his heels. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. -54. 

Cage — Stone walls do not a prison make, 
Nor iron bars a cage ; 
Minds innocent and quiet take 

That for an hermitage. Loyelace, To Althea, from Prison. 

Cain — God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.* 

Cowley, The Garden, ess. v. 

Cake — My cake is dough. Shaks. Taming of the Shrew, act v. sc. 1. 

Cake — But what are wishes? Wishes will not do : 
One cannot eat one's cake and have it too. 

Isaac Bickerstaff, Thomas and Sally, a burletta . 

Cakes — Sir Toby. Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there 
shall be no more cakes and ale ? 

Clown. Yes, by Saint Anne ! and ginger shall be hot i'the 
mouth, too. Shaks. Twelfth Night, act ii. sc. 3. 

Calamity — Calamity is mans true touchstone. 

Beaumont and Fletcher, Four Plays in One. 

Caledonia — Caledonia ! stern and wild, 
Meet nurse for a poetic child ! 
Land of brown heath and shaggy wood ; 
Land of the mountain and the flood. 

Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel, can. vi. st. 2. 

Calf — Thou wear a lion's hide ! doff it for shame, 
And hang a coifs skin on those recreant limbs. 

Shaks. K. John, act iii. sc. i. 

Calm — The steady temper, Portius, 

Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and C?esar, 
In the calm lights of mild philosophy. Addison, Cato, act i. sc. i. 

Calumny— Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt 
not escape calumny. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. t. 



God made the country, and man made the town. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. 



70 CAMS aSCAN—CANNO T. 

Cambuscan — Or call up him that left half-told 

The story of Cambuscan bold. Milton, 11 Penseroso, 1. 109. 

Cambyses — In King Cambyses' vein. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act ii. sc. 4. 

Camel — It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, 
than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. 

Matt. xix. 24. 

Can — Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould 
Breathe such divine, enchanting ravishment ? 

Milton, Comus, 1. 244. 

Can — Can such things be, 

And overcome us like a summer's cloud, 
Without our special wonder? Shaks. Macbeth, act iii. sc. 4. 

Candied — No, let the candied tongue lick ahsurd pomp; 
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, 
Where thrift may follow fawning. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Candle — How far that little candle throws his beams! 
So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 

Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act v. sc. 1. 

Candle — In faithe methinke some better waves 
On y r behalf e mighte well be soughte, 
Than to compare (as you haue done) 
To matche the candle withe the sunne. 

Earl of Surrey, Praise of his Love. 

Candle — To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, 
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, 
To the last syllable of recorded time ; 
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools 
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle I 
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player 
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, 
And then is heard no more ; it is a tale 
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, 
Signifying nothing. Shaks. Macbeth, act v. sc. 5. 

Cankers — The cankers of a calm world and a long peace. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act iv. sc. 2. 

Cannot — I cannot but remember such things were 
That were most precious to me. Shaks. Macbeth, act iv. sc. 3. 



CANON— CARE. 71 

Canon — that this too, too-solid flesh would melt, 
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew ! 
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed 
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter ! God ! God ! 
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable 
Seem to me all the uses of this world ! 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. 

Canopied — And they were canopied by the blue sky, 
So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, 
That God alone was to be seen in Heaven . Byron, The Dream, st. 4. 

Cap — A very riband in the cap of youth. Shaks. Ham. act iv. sc. 7. 

Captain — And simple truth miscalled simplicity, 
And captive good attending captain ill. Shaks. Sonnets, son. lxvi. 

Captain — That in the captain 's but a choleric word 
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. 

Shaks. Measure for Measure, act ii. sc. 2. 

Capulets — I would rather sleep in the corner of a little country 
churchyard than in the tomb of all the Capulets. 

Burke, Letter to Matt. Smith. 

Carcass — For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be 
gathered together. Matthew xxiv. 28. 

Care — Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, 
And every grin, so merry, draws one out. 

Dr. Wolcot, Expostulary Odes, ode xv. 

Care — Cast away care ; he that loves sorrow 
Lengthens not a day, nor can buy to-morrow ; 
Money is trash ; and he that will spend it, 
Let him drink merrily, Fortune will send it. 

John Ford and T. Dekker, The Sun's Darling. 

Care — Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 3. 

Care — As the ancients 

Say wisely, have a care o' tK main chance, 
And look before you ere you leap, 
For, as you sow, y'are like to reap. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. ii. can. ii. 1. 501. 

Care — I am sure care 's an enemy to life. 

Shaks. Twelfth Night, act i. sc. 3. 



72 CARES— CAT. 

Cares — Full little knowest thou, that hast not tride, 
What hell it is in suing long to bide : 
To loose good dayes that might be better spent ; 
To wast long nights in pensive discontent ; 
To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; 
To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow. 

***** 
To fret thy soule with crosses and with cares; 
To eat thy heart through comfortlesse dispaires ; 
To fawne, to crowche, to waite, to ride, to ronne, 
To spend, to give, to want, to be undonne. 

Spenser, Mother Hubberd's Tale, 1. 895. 

Cares — By sports like these are all their cares beguiled; 
The sports of children satisfy the child. 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, 1. 153. 

Cart — Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart, 
And often took leave, but was loth to depart. 

Matt. Prior, The Thief and the Cordelier. 

Casca — See, what a rent the envious Casca made ! 

Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act iii. sc. 2. 

Cassius — Let me have men about me that are fat; 
Sleek -headed men, and such as sleep 0' nights ; 
Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look : 
He thinks too much : such men are dangerous. Ibid, act i. sc. 2. 

Cast — I have set my life upon a cast, 
And I will stand the hazard of the die. 

Shaks. K. Richard III, act v. sc. 4. 
Castle — For a man's house is his castle. 

Sir E. Coke, Third Institute, p. 162. 
Casuists — Who shall decide, when doctors disagree, 
And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me ? 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. iii. 1. 1. 
Cat — But thousands die without or this or that, 
Die, and endow a college or a cat. Ibid. 1. 95. 

Cat — Letting " I dare not" wait upon " I would," 
Like the poor cat 1 the adage. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 7. 

Cat, bell the — But they are lothe to mel 
And lothe to hang the bel 
About the cattes neck 
Fro dred to haue a checke. John Skelton, Colin Clout, 1. ho. 



CAT— CAUSE. 73 

Cat — Let Hercules himself do what he may, 
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. 1. 

Catalogue — Mur. We are men, my liege. 
Mac. Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act iii. sc. 1. 

Cataracts — The sounding cataract 

Haunted me like a passion ; the tall rock, 
The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, 
Their colours and their forms, were then to me 
An appetite, a feeling, and a love. Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey. 

Cataracts — Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts I 

Coleridge, Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni. 

Catastrophe — Til tickle your catastrophe. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part ii. act ii. sc. 1. 

Catch — The play's the thing 

Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2. 

Catch — Learn of the little nautilus to sail, 
Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iii. 1. 177. 

Cathay — Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. 

Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 

Cato — Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, 
Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius. 

Byron, Don Juan, cant. vi. st. 7. 

Caucasian — Nor these alone : but every legend fair 
Which the supreme Caucasian mind 
Carved out of nature. Tennyson, Palace of Art. 

Cause — Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause ; 
and be silent that you may hear. 

Shaks. Julius C&sar, act iii. sc. 2. 

Cause — Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side 
In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree ? 

Moore, Come, Send round the Wine. 



74 CAUTION— CHAIR. 

Caution — life ! how pleasant in the morning, 
Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning ! 
Cold, pausing caution's lesson scorning, 

We frisk away, 
Like schoolboys at th' expected warning, 
To joy and play. 

Burns, Ep. to James Smith. 
Cave — And silent as the moon, 
When she deserts the night, 
Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. 

Milton, Samson Agonistes, 1. 87. 

Caviare — 'Twas caviare to the general. Shaks. Ham. act ii. sc. 2. 

Celestial — To whom the angel, with a smile that glowed 
Celestial rosy-red, love's proper hue. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. viii. 1. 618. 

Cerberus — You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are 
you ? Sheridan, The Rivals, act iv. sc. 2. 

Ceremony — No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, 
Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, 
The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, 
Become them with one half so good a grace 
As mercy does. Shaks. Measure for Measure, act ii. sc. 2. 

Cervantes — thou ! whatever title please thine ear, 
Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaff, or Gulliver ; 
Whether thou choose Cervantes' serums air, 
Or laugh and shake in Eabelais' easy-chair. 

Pope, The Dunciad, bk. i. 1. 21. 

Chaff— Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing ; more than any 
man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid 
in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; 
and, when you have them, they are not worth the search. 

Shaks. Mar. of Venice, act i. sc. 1. 

Chair — There is no flock, however watched and tended, 
But one dead lamb is there ; 
There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, 

But has one vacant chair. Longfellow, Resignation. 

Chair — Stretched on the rack of a too easy chair, 
And heard thy everlasting yawn confess 
The pains and penalties of idleness. 

Pope, The Dunciad, bk. iv. 1. 342. 



CHAMBER— CHAOS. 75 

Chamber — The chamber where the good man meets his fate 
Is privileged beyond the common walk 
Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night ii. I. 633. 

Champagne — And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at 
last.* Lady M. W. Montagu, The Lover. 

Chance — A lucky chance that oft decides the fate 

Of mighty monarchs. Thomson, The Seasons, 1. 1285. 

Change — A change came der the spirit of my dream. 

Byron, The Dream, st. 3. 

Change — Each change of many -coloured life he drew, 
Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new. 

Johnson, Prologue on the opening of the Drury 
Lane Theatre. 

Change — Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing 
grooves of change. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 

Change — The sky is changed ! and such a change ! Oh night, 
And storm, and darkness ! ye are wondrous strong, 
Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light 
Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, 
From peak to peak the rattling crags among, 
Leaps the live thunder. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iii. st. 92. 

Chanticleer — My lungs began to crow like chanticleer. 

Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7. 

Chaos — Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds : 
At which the universal host up sent 
A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond 
Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 540. 

Chaos — Chaos of thought and passion all confused; 
Still by himself abused or disabused ; 
Created half to rise, and half to fall ; 
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; 
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; 
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. ii. 1. 13. 

* What do you say to such a supper with such a woman \ 

Byro:\', Letter to Moore. 



76 CHAOS— CHABYBDIS. 

Chaos — Perdition catch my soul, 

But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not 
Chaos is come again. Shaks. Othello, act iii. sc. 3. 

Chapel — Wherever God erects a house of prayer, 
The Devil always builds a chapel there ; 
And 'twill he found, upon examination, 
The latter has the largest congregation. 

Defoe, The True-born Englishman, pt. i. 1. i. 

Character — / leave my character behind me. 

Sheridan, School for Scandal, act ii. sc. 2. 

Characters — 'Tisfro?n high life high characters are drawn; 
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. i. 1. 135. 

Charge — " Charge! Chester, charge! On ! Stanley, on !" 
Were the last words of Marmion. Scott, Marmion, can. vi. st. 32. 

Chariest — The chariest maid is prodigal enough 
If she unmask her beauty to the moon. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 3. 

Charities — The primal duties shine aloft, like stars ; 

The charities, that soothe, and heal, and bless, 

Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers. 

Wordsworth, Excursion, bk. ix. 
Charity — Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. 1 Peter iv. s. 

Charity — He hath a tear for pity, and a hand 
Open as day for melting charity. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part ii. act iv. sc. 4. 

Charm — Hast thou a charm to stay the morning star 
In his steep course ? Coleridge, Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni.. 

Charmed — I bear a charmed life. Shaks. Macbeth, act v. sc. :. 

Charmer — How happy could I be with either, 
Were t'other dear charmer away ! 

Gay, Beggar's Opera, act i. sc. 1. 

Charmer — Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, 
If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. ii. 1. 15. 

Charms — Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. 

Pope, The Bape of the Lock, can. v. 1. 34. 

Charybdis — Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into 

Chary bdis, your mother. Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act iii. sc. 5. 



CHASTE— CHEEK. 77 

Chaste — Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, 
She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven. 

Yor>"G, Night Thoughts, night v. 1. 600. 

Chaste — She is so chaste, she never understood the language lust 
speaks in ; nor with a smile applauds it, although wit appear in 
the metaphor. Haebixgtox, Castara. 

Chatter — Like a crane or a swallow so did I chatter. Is. xxxviii, u. 

Chatterton — I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, 
The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; 
Gf him who walked in glory and in joy, 

Following his plough along the mountain-side. 

Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence, st. 7. 

Cheap — 'Tis but a folly to rejoyce or boast 
How small a price thy well-bought penn'orth cost ; 
Until thy death thou shalt not fully know 
Whether thy purchase be good, cheap, or no ; 
'And at that day, believ't, it will appear, 
If not extremely cheap, extremely dear. 

Quarles, Div. Fancies, xcix. On Buying a Bible. 

Cheap — The cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly senti- 
ment and heroic enterprise is gone. 

Burke, On the French Revolution. 

Cheat — When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. 
Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; 
Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : 
To-morrow's falser than the former day ; 
Lies worse ; and while it says, " We shall be blest 
With some new joys," cuts off what we possessed. 

Drtdex, Aurungzebe, act iv. sc. 1. 

Cheated — But I hate to be cheated, and never will buy 
Long years of repentance with moments of joy. 

Lady M. W. Montagu, The Lover. 

Cheated — Doubtless the pleasure is as great 

Of being cheated as to cheat. Butler, Hudibras, pt. ii. can. iii. I.i. 

Cheek — She never told her love, 

' But let concealment, like a worm f the bud, 
Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought, 
And, with a green and yellow melancholy, 
She sat, like Patience on a monument, 
Smiling at grief. Shaks. Twelfth Night, act ii. sc. i. 



78 CHEEK— CHERRY. 

Cheek — He that loves a rosy cheek, 
Or a coral lip admires, 
Or from star-like eyes doth seek 

Fuel to maintain his fires, 
As old Time makes these decay, 

So his flames must waste away. Carew, Disdain Returned. 

Cheek — It seems she hangs upon the cheek of Night 
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear. 

Shaks. Ro?neo and Juliet, act i. sc. 5. 

Cheek — Or hid the soul of Orpheus sing 
Such notes as, warhled to the string, 
Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek. Milton, 11 Penseroso, 1. 105. 

Cheek — See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand ! 
that I were a glove upon that hand, 
That I might touch that cheek! 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 2. 

Cheek — ? Tis now the summer of your youth : Time has not cropt 

the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. 

Moore, The Gamester, act iii. sc. 4. 

Cheerful — So didst thou travel on life's common way, 

In cheerful godliness. Wordsworth, Sonnets to 

National Independence and Liberty, pt. ii. u 

Cheerful — A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays 
And confident to-morrows. 

"Wordsworth, The Excursion, bk. vii. 

Cheese — Thought the moon was made of green cheese. 

Kabelais, bk. i. c. 2. 

Cheese — And prove that she's not made of green cheese. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. ii. can. iii. 1. 266. 

Cherrie — The cherrie of her lips. Sydney, Arcadia, bk. i. 

Cherry — There is a garden in her face, 

Where roses and white lilies grow ; 
A heavenly paradise is that place, 

Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow. 
There cherries grow that none may buy 
Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.* E. Alison, Recreations, 1606. 

* Herrick, who published his Hesperides in 1648, has a [song which Nell 
Gvrynne used to sing. 

'•' Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe," I cry; 

" Full and fair ones, come and buy." — Ed. 



CHERRY— CHILD. 79 

Cherry — So we grew together, 

Like to a double cherry, seeming parted. 

Shaks. Midsummer-Night's Dream, act iii. sc. 2. 

Cherubins — ■ Look how the floor of heaven 

Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. 
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st 
But in his motion like an angel sings, 
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; 
Such harmony is in immortal souls ; 
But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay 
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. 

Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act v. sc. 1. 

Chest — The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, 
The varnished clock that clicked behind the door, 
The chest contrived a double debt to pay, 
A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, 1. 227. 

Chewing — Pacing through the forest, 

Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy . 

Shaks. As You Like It, act iv. sc. 3. 

Chickens — What ! all my pretty chickens, and their dam, 
At one fell swoop ? Shaks. Macbeth, act iv. sc. 3. 

'Chickens — To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, 
And count their chickens ere they re hatched. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. ii. can. iii. 1. 923, 

Chief s pride — Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride ! 
They had no poet, and they died. 

Pope, Imitations of Horace, bk. iv. ode 9. 

Chiel — If there's a hole in a' your coats, 
I rede you tent it ; 
A chiel f s a?nang you taking notes, 

And faith he'll prent it. 
Burns, On Capt. Grose's Peregrinations through Scotland. 

, Child — Grief Jills the room up of my absent child, 
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, 
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, 
Remembers me of all his gracious parts, 
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. 

Shaks. King John, act iii. sc. 4. 



80 CHILD. 

Child — I have seen 

A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract 
Of inland ground, applying to his ear 
The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; 
To which, in silence hushed, his very soul 
Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon 
Brightened with joy ; for from within were heard 
Murmurings whereby the monitor expressed 
Mysterious union with its native sea. 

Wordsworth, The Excursion, bk. iv. 

Child — " He is a true-born child from Katur's mould V said 
Pogram with enthusiasm. (( He is a true-born child of this 
free hemisphere! verdant as the mountains of our country; 
bright and flowing as our mineral Licks ; unspiled by withering 
conventionalities, as air our broad and boundless Perearers ! 
Kough he may be: so air our barrs. Wild he may be: so 
air our buffalers. But he is a child of Natur\ and a child of 
freedom ; and his boastful answer to the despot and the tvrant 
is, that his bright home is in the settin' sun." 

Charles Dickexs, Martin Chuzzlewit, chap, xxxiv. 

Child — On parent knees, a naked, 7iew-born child, 
Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; 
So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep, 
Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep. 

Sir W. Joxes, From the Persian. 

Child— A simple child, 

That lightly draws its breath, 
And feels its life in every limb, 
What should it know of death? Wordsworth, We are Seven. 

Child — And listens like a three-years child. 

Wordsworth, Lines added to the Ancient Mariner. 

Child — It is a wise father that knows his own child* 

Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act ii. sc. 2. 

Child — The child is father of the man. 

Wordsworth, My Heart Leaps Up. 



* ou ya% ttw tj; lev yovov alrog ccvsyvw. — ODYSSEY, bk. i. 1. 216. 
" No one ever knew his own father." Buckley's Homer. Pointed ont to 
me by Mr. Thomas L' Estrange, of Donegal. Shakspere also says : — 
Art thou his father ? 
Ay, sir; so his mother says, if I may believe her. 



CHILD— CHILD BEX. 81 

Child — "When I was a child, I spake as a child. 1 Cor. xiii. 11. 

Child — Yes, child of suffering, thou mayst well be sure, 
He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor. Holmes, Urania, 

Child — Love is a boy by poets styled : 

Then spare the rod and spoil the child * 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. ii. can. i. 1. 843. 

Child — How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is 

To have a thankless child! Shaks. K. Lear, act i. sc. 4, 

Child — 'Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is 
old, he will not depart from it. Prov. xxii. 6. 

Child's heart — Old wishes, ghosts of broken plans, 
And phantom hopes assemble ; 
And that child's heart within the man's 

Begins to move and tremble. Te>">-yson, Will, Waterproof. 

Child's sob — But the child's sob curseth deeper in the silence 
Than the strong man in his wrath. 

E. B. Browning, Cry of Children. 

Childhood — I have had playmates, I have had companions, 
In my days of childhood, in my joyful school -days — 
All, all are gone, the old familiar laces. 

Lamb, Old Familiar Faces. 

Childhood — Childhood shows the man 

As morning shows the day. 

Milton, Paradise liegained, bk. iv. 1. 219. 

Childhood 's hour — 0, ever thus, from childhood 's hour, 
I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; 
I never loved a tree or flower, 
But 'twas the first to fade away. 

Moore, The Fire Worshippers. 

Childish— X childish waste of philosophic pains. 

Cowpee, Tirocinium, 1. B6. 

Children — Children know, 

Instinctive taught, the friend or foe. 

Scott, Lady of the Lake, can. ii, s. u. 

Children — Her children arise up, and call her blessed. 

Prov. xxxi. 28. 



* He that spareth his rod, hateth his son. — Prov. xiii. 24. 
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82 



CHILDREN— CHLORIS. 



Children — True, I talk of dreams, 

Which are the children of an idle brain, 
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. 

Shaks. Borneo and Juliet, act i. sc. 4 

Children — As children gathering pebbles on the shore. 

Milton, Paradise Regained, bk. iv. 1. 330, 

Children — Men are but children of a larger growth* 

Dryden, All for Love, prologue 

Children — Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, 
With whom revenge is virtue. Young, The Revenge, act v. sc. 2. 

Children — For the children of this world are in their generation 
wiser than the children of light. Luke xvi 

Children — Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be 
comforted, because they are not. Matt. ii. is, 

Chimaras — Grorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. 628 

Chimes — We have heard the chimes at midnight. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part ii. act iii. sc. 2 

Chimney-corner — He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth 
children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. 

Sir P. Sidney, The Defence of Poesy. 

Chinks — The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, 
Lets in new light through chinks that time has made; 
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become 
As they draw near to their eternal home. 

Waller, Verses upon his Divine Poesy. 

Chin — Her lips were red, and one was thin, 
Compared with that was next her chin ; 
Some bee had stung it newly. 

Sir J. Suckling, On a Wedding. 

Chloris — Ah, Chloris ! could I now but sit 
As unconcerned as when 
Your infant beauty could beget 
Is or happiness nor pain. 

Sir C. Sedley, The Mulberry Garden. 



* They (men) are but children too, though they have grey hairs and are of 
a larger size. — Seneca, De Ira, cap. viii. 



CHOOSE— CHURCH. 83 

Choose — Misses ! the tale that I relate 
This lesson seems to carry — 
Choose not alone a proper mate. 
But proper time to marry. 

Cowper, Pairing Time Anticipated. 

Choose — And choose your author as you choose your friend. 

Rosco^mox, Translated Verse. 

Chord — There's not a string attuned to mirth 
But has its chord in melancholy. Hood, Ode to Melancholy. 

Chord — There is in souls a sympathy with sounds; 
And as the mind is pitched, the ear is pleased 
With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave : 
Some chord in unison with what we hear 
Is touched within us, and the heart replies. 
How soft the music of those village bells, 
Palling at intervals upon the ear 
In cadence sweet ! Cowper, bk. vi. Winter Walk at Noon. 

Christ — "We kind o' thought Christ went agin war and pillage, 
And that eppyletts worn't the best mark of a Saint. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers. 

Christian — But it's euros Christian dooty, 
This ere euttin' folks's throats. Ibid. 

Christian — A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman. 

J. C. Hare, Guesses at Truth. 

Christian — A Christian is the highest style of man. 

Youxg, Night Thoughts, night iv. 1. rss. 

Christians — Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded 
That all the Apostles would have done as they did. 

Byrox, Don Juan, can. i. st. 83. 

Christmas — At Christmas play, and make good cheer, 
For Christmas comes but once a year. 

Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, chap. xii. 

Chrysolite — One entire and perfect chrysolite. 

Shaks. Othello, act v. sc. 2. 

Church — ]T7w builds a church to God, and not to fame, 
TTill never mark the marble with his name. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. iii. 1. 255. 



84 CHURCH— CIVET. 

Church — To kirk the nar, from God more far, 
Has been an old-said saw ; 
And he that strives to touch a star, 
Oft stumbles at a straw. 

Spenser, Shephej-d's Calendar, Thomalin loq. 

Church-door — Rom. Courage, man ! the hurt cannot be much. 
Mer. No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church- 
door; but 'tis enough. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 1. 

Churches — Why are our churches shut with jealous care, 
Bolted and barred against our bosom's yearning, 
Save for the few short hours of Sabbath prayer 
With the bell's toll statedly returning? 
Why are they shut ? 

Horace Smith, Why are they Shut? 

Churchyards — 'Tis now the very witching time of night, 
When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out 
Contagion to this world. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Cimmerian — Melt, and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll 
Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul ! 

Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, pt. ii. 1. 268. 

Circumlocution — If another Gunpowder Plot had been discovered 
half an hour before the lighting of the match, nobody would 
have been justified in saving the parliament, until there had 
been half a score of boards, half a bushel of minutes, several 
sacks of official memoranda, and a family-vault full of un- 
grammatical correspondence on the part of The Circumlocution 
Office. Charles Dickexs, Little Dorritt, chap. x. 

Circumstance — The purpose firm is equal to the deed : 
Who does the best his circumstance allows, 
Does well, acts nobly : angels could no more. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night ii. 1. 90. 

Cities — Far from gay cities and the ways of men. 

Pope, Odyssey, bk. xiv. 1. 410. 

Citizens — Before man made us citizens, great Xature made us men. 

Lowell, The Capture. 

City — Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill 
cannot be hid. Matt. v. u. 

Civet — Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my 
imagination. Shaks. K. Lear, act iv. sc. 6. 



CIVIL— CLOCK. 85 

Civil — Civil dissension is a viperous worm 
That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth. 

Shaks. K. Henry VI, part i. act v. sc. 1. 

Claims — From yon blue heaven above us bent, 
The grand old gardener and his wife 
Smile at the claims of long descent. 

Texxysox, Lady Clara Vere de Vere. 

Clapper-clawing — Have always been at daggers -drawing, 
And one another clapper-clawing. 

Butler, Hudibras, part ii. can. ii. 1. 79. 

Classic — Poetic fields encompass me around, 
And still I seem to tread on classic ground. 

Addisox, A Letter from Italy. 

Clay — Clay and clay differ in dignity. 

E. W. Emersox, Conduct of Life. 

Clay — Happy he 

With such a mother ! faith in womankind 
Beats with his blood, and trusts in all things high, 
Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall, 
He shall not blind his soul with clay. 

Texxysox, The Princess, can. vii. 

Clay — This is the porcelain clay of human kind. 

Drydex, Don Sebastian, act i. sc. i. 

Clay — A fiery soul, which, working out its way, 
Fretted the pigmy body to decay, 
And o'er informed the tenement of clay. 

Drydex, Absalom and Achitophel, part i. 1. 156. 

Clear — As clear as a whistle. Byrox, The Astrologer. 

Clink — With clink of hammers closing rivets up.* 

Cibber, Richard III, altered, act v. sc. i. 

Clock — Freshly ran he on ten winters more, 
Till, like a clock worn out with eating time, 
The wheels of weary life at last stood still. 

Drydex, (Edipus, act iv. sc. l. 



* See Shaks. K. Henry V, act iv. chorus. 



86 CLOCK— CLUBS. 

Clock — " Look at the clock .'" said Winifred Pryce, 
As she opened the door to her husband's knock, 
Then paused to give him a piece of advice — 
" You nasty varmint, look at the clock !" 

Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, p. 35. 

Clod — Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; 
To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot : 
This sensible warm motion to become 
A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit 
To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside 
In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; 
To be imprison' d in the viewless winds, 
And blown with restless violence round about 
The pendent world. Shaks. Measure for Measure, act iii. sc. 1. 

Close — At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, 
And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, 
When naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, 
And naught but the nightingale's song in the grove. 

Beattie, The Hermit. 

Clothing — Clothing the palpable and familiar 
With golden exhalations of the dawn. 

Coleridge, The Death of Wallenstein, act i. sc. 1. 

Cloud — A cloud of witnesses. Heb. xii. 1. 

Cloud — Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's 
hand. 1 Kings xviii. 44. 

Cloud — Was I deceived ? or did a sable cloud 
Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? 

Milton, Coinus, 1. 221. 

Clouds — Now is the winter of our discontent 
Made glorious summer by this sun of York, 
And all the clouds that lowered upon our house 
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. 

Shaks. K. JRichard III, act i. sc. 1. 

Clubs — With spots quadrangular of diamond form, 
Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, 
And spades, the emblem of untimely graves. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. iv. Winter Evening. 



COACH— COLISEUM. 87 

Coach — Go call a coach, and let a coach be called, 
And let the man who calleth be the caller; 
And in his calling let him nothing call, 
But u Coach ! coach ! coach !" for a coach, ye gods ! 

H. Carey, Chrononhotonthologos, act ii. sc. 4. 

Coals — Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, 
give him drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on 
Jus head. Rom, xii. a>. 

Coals — For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. 

Prov. XXY. 22. 

Coat — Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, 
We ne'er shall see him more : 
He used to wear a long black coat, 

All buttoned down before. A. G. Greene, Old Grimes. 

Cockloft — Often the cockloft is empty in those which Nature hath 
built many stories high. Fuller, Andronicus, ad fin. l. 

Coffee — Coffee, which makes the politician icise, 
And see through all things with his half-shut eyes. 

Pope, The Bape of the Lock, can. iii. 1, n;. 

Coigne — Coigne of vantage. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 6. 

Coil — I would that I were low laid in my grave ; 
I am not worth this coil that's made for me. 

Shaks. K. John, act ii. sc. i. 

Cold — The cold in clime are cold in blood, 
Their love can scarce deserve the name. 

Byron, The Giaour, 1. 1099. 

Cold — The cold, the changed, perchance the dead — anew, 
The mourned, the loved, the lost — too many ! yet how few ! 

Byrox, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. 24 

Cold — As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a fir 

country. Prov. xxv. 25. 

Coldly — Such is the aspect of this shore; 

'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! 

So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, 

TTe start, for soul is wanting there. Byrox, The Giaour, 1. 90. 

Coliseum— While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; 
And when Rome falls, the world. 

Byrox, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. 145. 



88 COLOGNE— COME. 

Cologne — The river Rhine, it is well known, 
Doth wash your city of Cologne ; 
But tell me, nymphs ! what power divine 
Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? Coleridge, Cologne. 

Colossus — Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world 
Like a Colossus ; and we petty men 
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about 
To find ourselves dishonourable graves. 

Shaks. Julius Casar, act i. sc. 2. 

Columbia — Hail, Columbia ! happy land ! 

J. Hopkinson, Hail, Columbia. 

Column — Now stir the fire, close the shutters fast, 
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, 
And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn 
Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, 
That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, 
So let us welcome peaceful evening in. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. iv. Winter Evening. 

Come — Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, 
And Laughter, holding both his sides, 
Come and trip it as you go 
On the light fantastic toe. Milton, L Allegro, 1. 31. 

Come — Come as the winds come, when 
Forests are rended ; 
Come as the waves come, when 

Navies are stranded. Scott, Pibroch of Donald Dhu. 

Come — Come, gentle Spring ! ethereal mildness, come ! 

J. Thomson, The Seasons, Spring, 1. 1. 

Come — Show his eyes, and grieve his heart ! 

Come like shadows, so depart. Shaks. Macbeth, act iv. sc. 1. 

Come — Come live with me and be my love, 
And we will all the pleasures prove 
That valleys, groves, and hills, and fields, 
Woods, or steepy mountains, yield. 

C. Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love. 

Come — Come one, come all! this rock shall fly 
From its firm base as soon as I. 

Scott, The Lady of the Lake, can. v. st. 10. 



COME— COMPASS. 89 

Come — Come ivhat come may, 

Time and the hour runs through the roughest clay. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 3. 

Comforters — Miserable comforters are ye all. Job xvi. 2. 

Coming — 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, 
And coming events cast their shadows before. 

Campbell, LochieVs Warning. 

Commentators — How commentators each dark passage shun, 
And hold their farthing candle to the sun. 

Youxg, Love of Fame, sat. vii. 1. 97. 

Commentators — Commentators I worthy folks who too often write 
on books as men with diamonds write on glass, obscuring light 
with scratches. D. Jerrold, Man Made of Money, p. 194. 

Common — Above the vulgar flight of common souls. 

Murphy, Zenobia, act v. sc. 2. 

Common — The meanest floweret of the vale, 
The simplest note that swells the gale, 
The common sun, the air, the skies, 
To him are opening paradise. 

Gray, Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude. 

Commonplace — Thou unassuming Commonplace 

Of Nature. Wordsworth, To the Daisy. 

Communion — They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet 
Quaff immortality and joy. Milton, Par. Lost, bk. v. 1. 637. 

Communion — To him who, in the love of Nature, holds 
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks 
A various language. Bryaxt, Thanatopsis. 

Comparisons — Leave her, and I will leave comparing thus ; 
Sl^e and comparisons are odious. 

Dr. J. Doxne, elegy viii. The Comparison, 1. 53. 

Comparisons — Comparisons are odorous. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act iii. sc. 5. 

Compass — God has a compass in his providences. 

Lady It. Kessell, Letter XXII. to Dr. Fitzwilliam. 

Compass — A narrow compass! and yet there 
Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair ! 
Give me but what this ribbon bound, 
Take all the rest the sun goes round. Waller, On a Girdle. 



90 COMPASSED— CONCORD. 

Compassed — Broad based upon her people's will, 

And compassed by the inviolate sea. 

Tenxysox, Dedication to the Queen. 
Complete — In complete steel 

Revisit' st thus the glimpses of the moon, 

Making night hideous. Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 4. 

Complies — He that complies against his will 

Is of his own opinion still. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. iii. can. iii. 1. 547. 
Composture — I'll example you with thievery : 

The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction 

Robs the vast sea : the moon's an arrant thief, 

And her pale fire she snatches from the sun : 

The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves 

The moon into salt tears : the earth's a thief, 

That feeds and breeds b} T a composture stolen 

From general excrement : each thing's a thief. 

Shaks. Timon of Athens, act iv. sc. s. 
Compound — Compound for si?is they are inclined to, 

By damning those they have no mind to. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. i. can. i. 1. 215. 
Compunctious — That no compunctious visitings of nature 

Shake my fell purpose. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 5. 

Compute — What's done we partly may compute, 

But know not what's resisted. Burns, Address to Unco Guid. 
Concatenation — A concatenation accordingly. 

Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, act i. sc. 2. 
Conceit — Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? there is more 

hope of a fool than of him. Proverbs xxvi. 12. 

Conceits — Be not wise in your own conceits. Romans xii. 16. 

Conception — Be still the unimaginable lodge 

For solitary thinkings ; such as dodge 

Conception to the very bourn of heaven. Keats, Endymion. 

Conclusion — But this denoted a foregone conclusion. 

Shaks. Othello, act iii. sc. 3. 
Concord — The man that hath no music in himself, 

Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, 

Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; 

The motions of his spirit are dull as night, 

And his affections dark as Erebus : 

Let no such man be trusted. Shaks. Mer. ofVen. act v. sc. 1. 



C O ND EMN— CONQUEST. 91 

Condemn — Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it. 

Shaks. Measure for Measure, act ii. sc. 2. 

Conduct — Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, 
And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. 

Pope, Rape of the Lock. 

Conduct — His conduct still right, with his argument wrong. 

Goldsmith, Retaliation, 1. 46. 

Confines — Our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight 
and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, 
though at far distance, true colours and shapes. 

Milton, History of England, bk. i. ad fin. 

Confirmations — Trifles, light as air, 

Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong 
As proofs of holy writ. Shaks. Othello, act iii. sc. 3. 

Conflict — Dire was the noise 

Of conflict. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. vi. 1. 211. 

Confusion — Confusion now hath made his masterpiece ! 
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope 
The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence 
The life 0' the building. Shaks. Macbeth, actii. sc. 3. 

Confusion — With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, 

Confusion worse confounded. Milton, Par. Lost, bk. ii. 1. 995. 

Congealed — In reading Mr. Catteau's account of the congealed and 
blighted Laplanders, we were struck with the infinite delight 
they must have in dying. Sydney Smith, E. R. 1S03. 

Congregate — Even there where merchants most do congregate. 

Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act i. sc. 3. 

Conjectures — I'm weary of conjectures. Addison, Cato, act v. sc. 1. 

Conquer — Then fly betimes, for only they 

Conquer love that run away. T, Caeew, Conquest by Flight. 

Conquerors — And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds, 
There's a lean fellow beats all conquerors. 

T. Dekkee, Old Fortunatus . 

Conquest — Conquest has explored more than ever curiosity has 
done ; and the path of science has been commonly opened by the 
sword. Sydney Smith, E. R. iso3. 



92 CONQ UEST— CONTA GIO US. 

Conquest — And ever since the Conquest have been fools. 

Eael of Rochester, Artemira in the Town to Chloe 
in the Country. 

Conscience — Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, 
That would be wooed, and not unsought be won. 

aIiltox, Paradise Lost, bk. yiii. 1. 502. 

Conscience — Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it 
has with politics. Sheridan, The Duenna, act ii. sc. 4. 

Conscious — The conscious water saw its God and blushed.* 

K-. Crashaw, Translation of Epigram on Joan II. 

Consecration — The light that never was on sea or land, 
The consecration, and the poet's dream. 

AYordsworth, Elegiac Stanzas suggested by a Picture of 
Peele Castle in a Stor?n, st. 4. 

Consecrate — Xor florid prose, nor honeyed lies of rhyme, 
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime. 

Byrox, Childe Harold, can. i. st. 3. 

Conservative — Every man with an income of five hundred pounds 
a year is by nature a conservative. Quarterly Review*. 

Constable — Outrun the constable at last. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. i. can. iii. 1. 136". 

Constancy — As soon 

Seek roses in December, ice in June ; 
Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff, 
Believe a woman, or an epitaph, 
Or any other thing that's false. 

Byrox, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 1. "5. 

Constant — But I am constant as the northern star, 
Of whose true-fixed and resting quality 
There is no fellow in the firmament. Shaks. Jul. Cce. act iii. sc. 1. 

Contagion — And in the shadow of the silent night 
Doth shake contagion from her sable icings. 

Marlowe, Jew of Malta, act ii. sc. 1. 

Contagious — And in the morn and liquid dew of youth 
Contagious blastments are most imminent. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 3. 

* Johnson gave the credit of this to Dryden, when a boy at Westminster. 
The Latin line is — 

11 Nympha pudica Denm vidit et erubuit." 



CONTEMPLA TIOX—COXVERSIXG. 93 

Contemplation — For contemplation he and valour formed, 
For softness she, and sweet attractive grace. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iv. 1. 297. 

Content — now for ever. 

Farewell the tranquil mind ! farewell content! 
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, 
That make ambition virtue ! farewell ! 
Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, 
The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife ! 

Shaks. Othello, act iii. sc. 3. 

Content — Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, 

Content to dwell in decencies for ever. Pope, Mor. Ess. ep. ii. 1. 163. 

Contented — When one is contented, there is no more to be desired; 
and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it. 
Cervantes, Don Quixote, pt. i. bk. iv. ch. 23. 

Contentious — A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a con- 
tentious woman are alike. Prov. xxvii. 15. 

ntment — The noblest mind the best contentment has. 

Spenser, Fairy Queen, bk. i. can. i. st. 35. 

Contests — What dire offence from amorous causes springs ! 
What mighty contests rise from trivial things! 

Pope, The Rape of the Loci:, can. i, 1. 1. 

Continual — Small have continual plodders ever won, 
Save base authority from others' books. 

Shaks. Love's Labour s Lost, act i. sc. 1. 

Contortions — It has all the contortions of the sybil without the 
inspiration.* Burke, Prior s Life of Burke. 

Contradiction — Woman 9 s at best a contradiction still. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. ii. 1. 270. 

Conversation's burrs — And, when you stick on conversation's burrs, 
Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs. 

Holmes, Urania. 
Conversing — With thee conversing, I forget all time ; 
All seasons and their change, all please alike. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iv. 1. 639. 



* Speaking of Croft's imitation of Johnson's style, he said, " No, no, it is not 
a good imitation of Johnson : it has all his pomp without his force; it has all 
the nodosities of the oak without its strength ; it has all the contortions of the 
sybil without the inspiration." — Ed. 



94 CONVEY— COT. 

Convey — Convey, the wise it call. Steal ! foh ! a fico for the phrase ! 
Shaks. Merry Wives of Windsor, act i. sc. 3. 

Cool — Here in cool grot and mossy cell, 
We rural fays and fairies dwell. 

Shexstoxe, In his Garden at the Leasowes. 

Cool — His cooks, with long disuse, their trade forgot; 
Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. 

Drydex, Absalom and Achitophel, L 620. 

Corn — Until a man might travel twelve stout miles, 
Or reap an acre of his neighbour s com. Words. The Brothers. 

Corner — Sits the wind in that corner? 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act ii. sc. 3. 

Coronets — Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 
'Tis only noble to be good. 
Kind hearts are more than coronets, 
And simple faith than Norman blood. 

Tesxysox, Lady Clara Vere de Vere. 

Corporations — They (corporations) cannot commit trespass nor be 
outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls. 

Sir E. Coke, Case of Sutton s Hospital, 10 rep. p. 39. 

Correspondent — I will be correspondent to command, 
And do my sp'riting gently. Shaks. Tempest, act i. sc. 2. 

Corsair's name — He left a corsair s name to other times, 
Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes. 

Byrox, The Corsair, can. iii. st. 24. 

Cortez — Then felt I like some watcher of the skies, 

When a new planet swims into his ken; 
Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes 

He stared at the Pacific, and all his men 
Looked at each other with a wild surmise — 

Silent, upon a peak in Darien. J. Keats, Sonnet xi. 

Costard — The rational hind, Costard. 

Shaks. Love's Labour s Lost, act i. sc. 2. 

Cot — Mine be a cot beside the hill ; 

A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; 
A willowy brook, that turns a mill, 

With many a fall, shall linger near. Sam. Rogers, A Wish. 



COTTA GE— CO URSE. 95 

Cottage — He stood beside a cottage lone, 
And listened to a lute, 
One summer's eve when the breeze was gone, 
And the nightingale was mute. 

T. K. Heryey, The Devil's Progress. 

Couch — ■ Sustained and soothed 

By an unfaltering trust, approach thy graYe 
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch 
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. 

Bryant, Thanatopsis. 
Counsellors — In the multitude of counsellors there is safety. 

Prov. xi. 14. 
Counterfeit — Look here, upon this picture, and on this : 
The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. 
See what a grace was seated on this brow ! 
Hyperion's curls ; the front of Jove himself; 
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4, 
Country — God made the country, and man made the town.* 

Cowper, The Task, bk. i. The Sofa. 
Country — True patriots all; for be it understood, 
We left our country for our country s good. 

From the ''Prologue written for the opening of the Play-house 
at New South Wales, Jan. 16, 1796." 

Country's cause — "Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, 
And asks no omen but his country's cause. 

Pope, Translation of the Iliad, bk. xii. 

Courage — For courage mounteth with occasion. 

Shaks. K. John, act ii. sc. i. 
Courage — Screw your courage to the sticking-place. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 7. 

Course — I have fought a good fight, / have finished my course, I 
have kept the faith. 2 Tim. iv. 7. 

Course — Westward the course of empire takes its way, 
The four first acts already past ; 
A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; 
Time's noblest offspring is the last. 

Bishop Berkeley, On the Prospect of Planting Arts and 
Learning in America. 

* See also quotation from Cowley, p. 69. — Ed. 



96 COURSE— CRADLES. 

Course — For aught that I could ever read, 
Could ever hear by tale or history, 
The course of true love never did run smooth. 

Shaks. Midsummer-Night's Dream, act i. sc. 1. 

Courtesy — I am the very pink of courtesy. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc, 4. 

Coventry — A mad fellow met me on the way, and told me I had 
unloaded all the gibbets, and pressed the dead bodies. Xo eve' 
hath seen such scare-crows. I'll not march through Coventry 
with them, that's flat ! Nay, and the villains march wide betwixt 
the legs, as if they had gyves on; for, indeed, I had the most of 
them out of prison. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act iv. sc. 2. 

Coward — I was a coward on instinct. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act ii. sc. 4. 

Coward — "When all the blandishments of life are gone, 
The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. 

Dr. Gr. Sewell, The Suicide. 

Coward — Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward, 
Thou little valiant, great in villany ! 
Thou ever strong upon the stronger side ! 
Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight 
But when her humorous ladyship is by 
To teach thee safety ! Shaks. K. John, act iii. sc. 1. 

Cowards — Cowards die many times before their deaths : 
The valiant never taste of death but once. 

Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act ii. sc. 2. 

Cowards — A plague of cdl cowards ' I say. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act ii. sc. 4. 

Crabtree — With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, 
Hard crabtree and old iron rang. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. i. can. ii. 1. 831. 

Crack — -"What ! will the line stretch out to the crack of doom ? 

Shaks. Macbeth, act iv. sc. 1. 

Cradle — A little rule, a little sway, 
A sunbeam in a winter's day, 
Is all the proud and mighty have 
Between the cradle and the grave. Dyer, Grongar Hill. 

Cradles — Death borders upon our birth, and our cradles stand in 
the grave. Bishop Hall, Epistles, dec. iii. ep. 1. 



CRANNY— CREB ILL ON. 97 

Cranny — For 'tis a truth well known to most, 
That whatsoever thing is lost, 
TTe seek it, ere it come to light, 

In every cranny but the right. Cowpee, The Retired Cat. 

Crash — The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds. 

Addisox, Cato, act v. sc. 1. 

Crazy — "Whatever crazy sorrow saith, 
Xo life that breathes with human breath 
Has ever truly longed for death, Tennyson, The Two Voices. 

Creation — Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the gen'ral pulse 
Of life stood still, and Mature made a pause ; 
An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night i. 1. 23. 

Creator — Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. 

Eccles. xii. 1. 

Creature — A creature not too bright or good 
For human nature's daily food ; 
For transient sorrows, simple wiles, 
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. 

Woedswoeth, She teas a Phantom of Delight. 

Creature — Xo creature smarts so little as a fool. 

Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, 1. w. 

Creature — Destroy his fib, or sophistry — in vain, 
The creature 's at his dirty work again. Ibid. 1. 91. 

Creatures — That we can call these delicate creatures ours, 
And not their appetites. Shaks. Othello, act iii. sc. 3. 

Creatures — Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth 
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iv. L err. 

Creatures — Like following life through creatures you dissect. 
You lose it in the moment you detect. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. i. 1. 29. 

Crebillon — Xow as the Paradisaical pleasures of the Mahometans 
consist in playing upon the flute and lying with houris, be mine 
to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon. 

Gray, To Mr. West, third series, letter iv. 



98 CREDITOR— CRITICS. 

Creditor — Spirits are not finely touched, 

But to fine issues ; nor Nature never lends 
The smallest scruple of her excellence, 
But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines 
Herself the glory of a creditor, 
Both thanks and use. Shaks. Meas.for Meets, act i. sc. 1. 

Credulity — Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, 
and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope ; who expect 
that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the defi- 
ciencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, attend 
to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. 

Johnson, Rasselas, chap. 1. 
Creed — Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iii. st. 107. 
Creed — Great God ! I'd rather be 

A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; 
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, 

Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn ; 
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, 
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. 

Wordsworth, Miscell. Sonnets, pt. i. 33. 
Cricket — The cricket on the hearth. Milton, II Penseroso, 1. 82. 
Crime — Where crime is crowned, where guilt is glory. 

Nation Newspaper. 
Crimes — Small habits, well pursued, betimes 
May reach the dignity of crimes. 

Hannah Moore, The Bas-Bleu. 
Crimes — Tremble, thou wretch, 

Thou hast within thee undivulged crimes, 

Unwhipped of justice ! Shaks. King Lear, act iii. sc. 2. 

Crispian — This day is called the feast of Ciispian : 
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, 
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, 
And rouse him at the name of Crispian. 

Shaks. King Henry V, act iv. sc. 3. 

Critical — For I am nothing, if not critical. 

Shaks. Othello, act ii. sc. 1. 
Critics — The gyse now a dayes 
Of some iangling iayes, 
Is to discommend 
That they cannot amend. 

Skelton, Boke of Phil. Sparow, conclusion. 



CROPS— CRUTCH. 99 

Crops — Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, 
And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. i. 1. 83. 

Cross — On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, 
Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. 

Pope, The Rape of the Lock, can. ii. 1. 7. 

Crotchets — Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now. 

Shaks. Merry Wives of Windsor, act ii. sc. l. 

Crow — The blacke crowds foot shall appear in their eyes, or the 
blacke oxe head on their foote. John Lilly, Euphues, bk. i. c. l. 

Crowd — All crowd who foremost shall be damned to fame. 

Pope, The Dunciad, bk. iii. 1. 158. 

Crown — Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown* 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part ii, act iii. sc. l. 

Crown — The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the 
way of righteousness. Prov. xvi. 31. 

Crown — Blessed is the man that endureth temptation ; for when 
he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life. James i. 12. 

Crown — A mind content both crown and kingdom is. 

It. Greene, Farewell to Folly, Song. 

Crown — This is truth the poet sings, f 

That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. 

Tennyson, Locksley Hall, 

Crown — Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be 
withered. Wisdom of Solomon ii. 8, 

Cruel — Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave. 

Thomson, The Seaso?is, Winter, 1. 393. 

Cruel — I must be cruel only to be kind. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4. 

Crumbs — Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their 
master's table. Matt. xv. 21. 

Crutch — Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, 
Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won. 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, 1. 157. 

* How sweet a thing it is to wear a cr&iun, 

Within whose circuit is Elysium, 

And all that poets feign of bliss and joy. 

Shaks. King Henry VI, part iii. act i. sc. 2. 
t Dante. 



100 CRY— CURRENT. 

Cry — Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war ! 

Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act iii. sc. 1. 

Crystal Palace — Crystal Palace, the. D. Jerrold, Punch, i85i. 

Cuckoo — I sing like the cuckoo in June, to be laugh'd at. 

T. Dekker, The Gull's Hornbook, procemium. 

Cuckoo — Hark how the jolly cuckoos sing, 
Cuckoo to welcome in the Spring ! 
Cuckoo to welcome in the Spring I 

John Lilly, Alexander and Campaspe. 

Cucumber — When the wife of the great Socrates threw a — hum ! — 
threw a teapot at his erudite head, he was as cool as a cucumber. 

Colman, Heir-at-Law. 

Cunning — If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget 
her cunning. Psalm cxxxvii. 5. 

Cunning — An I thought he had been valiant, and so cunning in 
fence, I'd have seen him damn'd ere I'd have challenged him. 

Shaks. Twelfth Night, act iii. sc. 4. 

Cup — Drink to me only with thine eyes, 
And I will pledge with mine; 
Or leave a kiss but in the cup, 

And I'll not look for wine. Ben Jonson, The Forest, To Celia. 

Cup — There is no child that is borne into this wretched worlde, but 
before it doeth sucke the mother s milke, it taketh first a soope 
of the cup of err our. 

Riche, His Farewell to Militarie Profession, Apolonius 
and Silla, i58i. 

Cupid — Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, 
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. 

Shaks. Midsummer- Night' s Dream, act i. sc. l. 

Cur — And in that town a dog was found, 
As many dogs there be, 
Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, 
And cur of low degree. 

Goldsmith, Elegy on a Mad Dog. 

Curled — The wealthy curled darlings of our nation. 

Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. 2. 

Current — He is a fool who thinks by force or skill 
To turn the current of a woman's will. 

Sir Sam. Tuke, Adventures of Five Hours, act v. sc. 3. 



CURRENT— CUSTOM. 101 

Current — How small of all that human hearts endure, 
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! 
Still to ourselves in every place consigned, 
Our own felicity we make or find. 
With secret cause, which no loud storms annoy,. 
Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. 

Johxsox, Lines added to Goldsmith! s Traveller. 

Curs — He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone. 

C. Churchill, The Rosciad, 1. 322. 

Curse — Curse on all laws but those which love has made : 
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, 
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. 

Pope, Elo'isa to Abelard, 1. 74. 

Curse — Never was heard such a terrible curse '. 
But what gave rise 
To no little surprise, 
Nobody seemed one penny the worse ! 

Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, The Jackdaw, 

Cursed — Cursed be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, 
That tends to make one worthy man my foe. 

Pope, Prologue to the Satires, 1. 283. 

Curses— My way of life 

Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf; 
And that which should accompany old age, 
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, 
I must not look to have ; but in their stead, 
Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, 
Which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act v. sc. 3. 

Cushion — To rest the cushion and soft dean invite, 
Who never mentions Hell to ears polite.* 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. iv. 1. 149. 

Custom — But soft ! methinks I scent the morning air ; 
Brief let me be : sleeping within mine orchard, 
My custom always in the afternoon. Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 5. 



* Tom Brown, in his " Laconics," gives us this anecdote from a sermon by 
a certain worthy divine of the reign of Charles II : — " In short, if you don't 
live up to the precepts of the Gospel, but abandon yourselves to your irregular 
appetites, you must expect to receive your reward in a certain place which it 
is not good manners to mention here." — Ed. 



102 CUSTOM— CYNTHIA. 

Custom — Whence came this knack ? or when did it begin ? 
What author have they, or who brought it in ? 
Did Christ e'er keep a custom house for sin? 

Rochester, On Rome's Pardon. 

Cut — In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place, sir, 
To eat mutton cold and cut blocks with a razor. 

Goldsmith, Retaliation. 

Cut — This was the most unkindest cut of all. 

Shaks. Julius Coesar, act iii. sc. 2. 

Cut — Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, 
And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, 
That sometime grew within this holy man : 
Faustus is gone. Marlowe, Faustus, conclusion. 

Cutpurse — A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, 
That from a shelf the precious diadem stole 
And put it in his pocket. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4. 

Cycle — Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. 

Milton, Par. Lost, bk. viii. 1. 84. 

Cynosure — Where perhaps some beauty lies, 
The cynosure of neighbouring eyes. Milton, E Allegro, 1. 79. 

Cynthia — Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it 
Catch ere she change the Cynthia of this minute. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. ii. 1. 19. 






DAFFODILS— DALE. 

AFFODILS— Daffodils* that come before the 
swallow dares, and take 
The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, 
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, 
Or Cytherea's breath. 

Shaks. Winters Tale, act iv. sc. 3. 

Daggers — I will speak daggers to her, but use none. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Daisies — TThen daisies pied, and violets blue, 
And lady-smocks all silver-white, 
And cuckoo buds of yellow hue, 

Do paint the meadows with delight. 

Shaks. Love's Labour's Lost, act v. sc. 2. 

Daisies — Meadows trim with daisies pied, Miltox, L' Allegro, 1. rs. 

Dale — The intelligible forms of ancient poets, 
The fair humanities of old religion, 
The power, the beauty, and the majesty, 
That had their haunts in dale, or piney mountain, 
Or forests by slow stream, or pebbly spring, 
Or chasms and watery depths — all these have vanished : 
They live no longer in the faith of reason. 

Coleridge, Wallenstein, pt. i. act ii. sc. 4. 



* Fair daffodils, we weep to see 
You haste away so soon : 
As vet the early rising sun 
Has not attained his noon. 

Robert Herrick.— Ed. 



104 DALLIANCE— DANCE. 

Dalliance — Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, 
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, 
AYhilst, like a puffed and reckless libertine, 
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, 
And recks not his own rede. Shaks. Hamlet, act i. so. 3. 

Damien's bed — The lifted axe. the agonizing wheel, 
Zeck's* iron crown and Damien's bed of steel, 
To men remote from power, but rarely known, 
Leave reason, faith, and conscience all our own. 

Goldsmith, Traveller, 1. 435. 

Damn — Through whim (our critics) or by envy led, 
They damn those authors whom they never read. 

Churchill, Cand. 1. 5:. 

Damn — Damn icith faint praise, assent with civil leer, 
And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer. 
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, 
Just hiut a fault, and hesitate dislike. 

Pope, Prologue to the Satires, 1. 201. 

Damnable — Thou hast damnable iteration. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act L sc. 2. 

Damnation — And deal damnation round the land. 

Pope, Universal Prayer. 
Damned — 'Twas neither damned nor hissed, 

But as it were most civilly dismissed. Johxsox, Prologues. 

Damsel — 'Twas when the sea was roaring 
AVith hollow blasts of wind, 
A damsel lay deploring, 

All on a rock reclined. Gay, What d^ye calVt ? act iv. sc. 8. 

Dan — I pity the man that can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and 
cry, *Tis all barren. Sterxe, Sentimental Journey. Calais. 

Dan — This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid: 
Kegent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, 
The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, 
Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. 

Shaks. Love's Labour's Lost, act iii. sc. 1. 

Dance — On with the dance! let joy be unconfmed. 

Byrox, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iii. st. 22. 

* Goldsmith owes these lines to Johnson. George Zeck, in 1514, was 
punished by a red-hot iron crown for heading a revolt of Hungarians. Most 
editions of Goldsmith insert the word Luke. 



DANGER— DARLING. 105 

Danger — Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. 
Shaks. K. Henri/ IV, pt. i. act ii. sc. 3. 

Danger s night — The meteor flag of England 
Shall yet terrific burn, 
Till danger s troubled night depart 

And the star of peace return. Campbell, Ye Mariners ofEng. 

Dangers — Upon this hint I spake : 

She loved me for the dangers I had passed, 
And I loved her that she did pity them. 

Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. 3. 

Daniel — A Daniel come to judgment ! Yea, a Daniel! 

Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act iv. sc. 1. 

Dare — What man dare, I dare. Shaks. Macbeth, act iii. sc. 4. 

Dare — Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; 
A fault which needs it most grows two thereby. 

G. Herbert, The Church Porch. 

Dare — happiness ! our being's end and aim ! 

Good, pleasure, ease, content ! whate'er thy name : 
That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh 
For which we bear to live, or dare to die. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. 1. 

Daring — Judicious drank, and greatly daring dined. 

Pope, The Dunciad, bk. iv. 1. sis. 

Dark — What in me is dark 

Illumine, what is low raise and support, 
That, to the highth of this great argument, 
I may assert eternal Providence 
And justify the ways of God to men. 

Miltox, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 22. 

Darkness — How sweetly did they float upon the wings 
Of Silence through the empty-vaulted night ! 
At every fall smoothing the raven-down 
Of Darkness till it smiled. Miltox, Comus, 1. 249. 

Darkness — Yet from those flames 

Xo light, but rather darkness visible. Miltox, Par. Lost, bk. i. 1. 62. 

Darling — And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin 

Is pride that apes humility. Coleridge, The Devil's Thoughts. 



106 DART— DAY. 

Dart — Underneath this sable hearse 
Lies the subject of all verse : 
Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. 
Death ! ere thou hast slain another, 
Learn'd and fair and good as she, 
Time shall throw a dart at thee. 

Ben Jonson, Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke. 

Daughter — Still harping on my daughter, Shaks. Ham. act ii. sc. 2. 

Daughters — I am all the daughters of my father's house, 

And all the brothers too. Shaks. Twelfth Night, act ii. sc. 4. 

David — And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. 2 Sam. xii. 7. 

David — Not only hating David, but the King. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, pt. i. 1. 512. 

Dawn — But when shall spring visit the mouldering urn ? 
Oh ! when shall it dawn on the night of the grave? 

Beattie, Hermit. 

Daws — But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve 

For daws to peck at. Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. 1. 

Day — But 0, as to embrace me she inclined, 

I waked; she fled; and day brought back my night. 

Milton, Sonnets, son. xxiii. 

Day — And make each day a critic on the last. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. iii. 1. 12. 

Day — " Tve lost a day," the prince who nobly cried 
Had been an emperor without his crown. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night ii. 1. 99. 

Day — Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day 
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 5. 

Day — As merry as the day is long. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act ii. sc. 1. 

Day — Thus with the year 

Seasons return ; but not to me returns 
Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, 
Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, 
Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iii. 1. 40. 

Day — In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call 
the afternoon. Shaks. Love's Labour s Lost, act v. sc. 1. 



DAY— DAZZLES. 107 

Day — Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow 
shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the 
day is the evil thereof. Matt. vi. 34. 

Day's march — Here in my body pent, 
Absent from Him I roam, 
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent 
A day's march nearer home. 

J. Montgomery, At Home in Heaven. 

Days — One of those heavenly days that cannot die. 

"Wordsworth, Nutting. 

Days — Behold ! in Liberty's unclouded blaze 
We lift our heads, a race of other days. 

Charles Sprague, Centennial Ode, st. 22. 

Days — Sweet childish days, that were as long 

As twenty days are now. Wordsworth, To a Butterfly. 

Days — My days are swifter than a weaver s shuttle. Job \ii. 6. 

Days — Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, 
Tears from the depth of some divine despair 
Rise in the heart, and gather in the eyes, 
In looking on the happy Autumn fields, 
And thinking of the days that are no more. 

Tennyson, The Princess, can. iv. 

Days — The melancholy days are come, 
The saddest of the year, 
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, 
And meadows brown and sere. 

"W. C. Bryant, The Death of the Flowers. 

Days — More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged 
To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, 
On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. vii. 1. si. 

Day-star — So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, 
And yet anon repairs his drooping head, 
And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore 
Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. 

Milton, Lycidas, 1. 168. 

Dazzles — By the glare of false science betrayed, 
That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind. 

J. Beattie, The Hermit. 



108 DAZZLING— DEA TH. 

Dazzling — Enjoy your dear wit, "and gay rhetoric, 
That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence. 

Milton, Comus, 1. 789. 

Dead — Our laws endure the torment of Mezentius, "The living die 
in the arms of the dead." Bacon, On the Ann. of the Law. 

Dead — Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to have a 
stinking savour. Eccles. x. 20. 

Dead — He mourns the dead who lives as they desire. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night ii. 1. 24. 

Dead — And Xicanor lay dead in his harness. 1 Mac. xv. 28. 

Dead — My days among the dead are passed; 
Around me I behold, 
Where'er these casual eyes are cast, 

The mighty minds of old ; 
My never-failing friends are they, 
With whom I converse day by day. 

Southey, Occasional Pieces, xviii. 

Dead — Those that he loved so long, and sees no more, 
Loved and still loves, — not dead, but gone before. 

Rogers, Human Life. 

Dead — This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, 
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. 

Mrs. Barbauld, A Summer s Evening Meditation. 

Dead — Let the dead past bury its dead, 

Longfellow, A Psalm of Life. 

Dear — Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, 

Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.* 

Gray, The Bard, pt. i. st. 3. 
Dearest — Nothing in his life 

Became him like the leaving it ; he died 

As one that had been studied in his death 

To throw away the dearest thing he owed 

As 'twere a careless trifle. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 4. 

Death — How wonderful is death ! 

Death and his brother Sleep. P. B. Shelley, Queen Mab. 

Death — Be thou faithful unto death. Bev. ii. 10. 

* As dear to me as are the ruddy drops 
That visit my sad heart. — Shaks. Julius Casar, act ii. sc. 1. — Ed. 



DEATH. 109 

Death — Done to death by slanderous tongues. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act v. sc. 3. 
Death— Death 

Grinned horrible a ghastly smile, to hear 

His famine should be filled. Milton, Par. Lost, bk. ii. 1. 845. 

Death — Leaves have their time to fall, 

And flowers to wither at the North-wind's breath, 

And stars to set ; — but all, 
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death ! 

F. Hemans, The Hour of Death. 

Death — In the -midst of life ice are in death. The Burial Service. 

Death — There is death in the pot. 2 Kings iv. 40. 

Death — To me the thought of death is terrible, having such hold of 
life : 
To you it is not more than the sudden lifting of a latch, — 
Nought but a step into the open air out of a tent 
Already luminous with light that shines through its transparent 
folds. Longfellow, Golden Legend. 

Death — Let the world slide, let the world go : 
A fig for care, and a fig for woe ! 
If I can't pay, why, I can owe, 
And death makes equal the high and the low. 

John Heywood, Be Merry, Friends. 

Death — Death the gate of life. Milton, Par. Lost, bk. xii. 1. 890. 

Death — To ev'ry man upon this earth 

Death cometh soon or late. Macaulay, Horatius. 

Death — Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night v. 1. 1011. 

Death — Man makes a Death, which Nature never made. Ibid. 1. 15. 

Death — Death rides on every passing breeze: 

He lurks in every flower. Heber, At a Funeral. 

Death — And you, brave Cobham ! to the latest breath 

Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. i. 1. 252. 

Death — And over them triumphant Death his dart 
Shook, but delayed to strike, though oft invoked. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. xi. 1. 491. 



110 DEATH— DEED. 

Death — I was all ear, 

And took in strains that might create a soul 
Under the ribs of Death. JMilton, Comas, 1. 560. 

Death — Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, 
and in their death they were not divided. 2 Sam. i. 23. 

Death — Though this may be play to you, 

'Tis death to us. E. L' Estrange, Fable 398. 

Death — Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, 

Hell threatens. Young, Night Thoughts, night ii. 1. 292. 

Death — For the wages of sin is death. Rom. vi. 23. 

Death — O death, where is thy sting ? grave, where is thy victory? 

1 Cor. xv. 55. 

Death-bed — A death-bed's a detector of the heart. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night ii. 1. 641. 

Debtor — I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the 
which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and 
profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves by way of 
amends to be a help and ornament thereunto. 

Bacon, Com. Law of England. 

Deceit — that deceit should dwell 

In such a gorgeous palace I Shaks. Romeo and Jul. act iii. sc. 2. 

December's noon — Who loves not more the night of June 
Than dull December s gloomy noon ? 

Scott, Marmion, introd. to can. v. 

Decencies — Those graceful acts, 

Those thousand decencies, that daily flow 
From all her words and actions. Milton, Par. Lost, bk. viii. 1. 600. 

Decency — Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, 
Emblems right meet of decency does yield. 

W. Shenstone, The Schoolmistress, st. 5. 

Decency — Immodest words admit of no defence, 

For want of decency is want of sense. 

Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse. 
Deed — The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, 

Unless the deed go with it. Shaks. Macbeth, act iv. sc. 1. 

Deed — From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, 
The place is dignified by the doers deed. 

Shaks. All's Well that Ends Well, act ii. sc. 3. 



DEED— DEEP-MO UTHED. Ill 

Deed — A deed without a name. Shaks. Macbeth, act iv. sc. 1. 

Deeds — How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds 

Makes ill deeds done I Shaks. K. John, act iv. sc. 2. 

Deeds — And with necessity, 

The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, ok. iv. 1. 393. 

Deeds — We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; 

In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 

"We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives 

Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. 

P. J. Bailey, Festus. 
Deeds — Deeds, not words, 

Shall speak me. Beaumont and Fletcher, Lov. Prog, actiii. sc. 1. 

Deep — And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep, 

Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, 

To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iv. 1. 76. 
Deep — Dear as remembered kisses after death, 

And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned 

On lips that are for others ; deep as love, 

Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; 

Death in Life, the days that are no more. 

Tennyson, The Princess, can. iv. 

Deep — Glen. I can call spirits from the vasty deep. 
Hot. Why, so can I, or so can any man ; 
But will they come when you do call for them ? 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act iii. sc. 1. 

Deep — could I flow like thee, and make thy stream 
My great example, as it is my theme ! 
Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; 
Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full. 

Sir J. Denham, Cooper s Hill, 1. 189. 

Deeper — Deeper than e 9 er plummet sounded. 

Shaks. Tempest, act iii. sc. 3. 

Deep-mouthed — 'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark 
Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home ; 
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark 
Our coming, and look brighter when we come. 

Byron, Don Juan, can. i. st. 123. 



112 DEER— DELPHIAN. 

Deer — Why, let the stricken deer go weep, 
The hart ungalled play ; 
For some must watch, while some must sleep : 

So runs the world away. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Deer — But mice, and rats, and such small deer, 
Have been Tom's food for seven long year. 

Shaks. King Lear, act iii. sc. 4. 

Defend — Defend me from my friends.* Anonymous. 

Defer — Defer not till to-morrow to be wise : 
To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise. 

Coxgreve, Letter to Cobham. 

Defiance — Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, 
I see the lords of human kind pass by. 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, 1. 327. 

Delay — And wins, like Fabius, by delay. Gay, Fables. 

Deliberates — The woman who deliberates is lost,-\ 
And yet I won't be his at any cost. 

J. R. Plaxch£, Burlesque of Aladdin. 

Delight — In this fool' 's paradise he drank delight. 

Crabbe, The Borough, Letter xii. Players. 

Delight — A verse may find him who a sermon flies, 
And turn delight into a sacrifice. 

Geo. Herbert, The Church Porch. 

Delight — What more felicitie can fall to creature 
Than to enjoy delight with libertie, 
And to be lord of all the workes of Nature ? 

Spexser, The Fate of a Butterfly, 1. 209. 

Delightful — Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, 
To teach the young idea how to shoot. Thomsox, Spring, 1. 1149. 

Delphian — Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines, 
Shrines to no code or creed confined, — 
The Delphian vales, the Palestines, 

The Meccas of the mind. Halleck, Burns. 



* The French Ana assign to Marechal Villars, taking leave of Lonis XIV, 
this aphorism, — " Defend me from my friends : I can defend myself from my 
enemies." Canning has it, " Save, oh save me from the candid friend!" — Ed. 
t A Proverb : thus Lilly almost repeats it, — 

" But if ye parley with the foe you're lost." 

Arden of Feversham, act iii. sc. 1. 



DEMO CB AT Y— DESIRE. 113 

Democraty — Thence to the famous orators repair, 
Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence 
Wielded at will that fierce democraty. 

Milton, Paradise Regained, bk. iv. 1. 267. 
Denide — In part to blame is she 

Which hath without consent bin only tride; 
He comes too neere that comes to be denide.* 

Sir T. Overbuet, A Wife, st. 36. 

Denmark — Something is rotten in the state of Den/nark. 

Shahs. Hamlet, act i. sc. 4. 
Derby — So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides 
The Derby ditty carrying three insides, 

J. Hookham Frere, The Loves of the Triangles, 1. its. 

Descend — Descend, ye Nine. Pope, Ode on St. Cecilia's Day. 

Descent — That in our proper motion we ascend 
Up to our native seat ; descent and fall 
To us is adverse. Miltox, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. 75. 

Desert — The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose* 

Isaiah xxxv. i. 
Desert — that the desert -were my dwelling-place, 
"With one fair spirit for my minister, 
That I might all forget the human race, 
And, hatino- no one, love but only her ! 

Byrox, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. 177. 

Desert — One simile that solitary shines 
In the dry desert of a thousand lines. 

Pope, Satires, bk. ii. ep. i. 1. in . 
Desert — Afar in the desert I love to ride, 
With the silent Bush -boy alone by my side, 
When the sorrows of life the soul o'ercast, 
And, sick of the present, I cling to the past. 

Thomas Prixgle, Afar in the Desert. 

Desert — Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape 
whipping? SnAKS^Ha?nlet, act ii. sc. 2. 

Desire — Timotheus, to his breathing flute 
And sounding lyre, 
Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. 

Drydex, Alexander s Feast, 1. 160. 

* Lady M. Wortley Montague took this line and wrote it on a window just 
after her marriage, 1713. — Ed. 

I 



114 DESIRE— DEVIL. 

Desire — The desire of the moth for the star, 
Of the night for the morrow, 
The devotion to something afar 
From the sphere of our sorrow. 

Shelley, Poems written in 1821. 

Despair — The strongest and the fiercest Spirit 

That fought in Heaven, now fiercer by despair. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. u. 

Despair — None without hope e'er loved the brightest fair, 
But love can hope where reason would despair. 

Lord Lyttelton, Epigram. 

Despair— Shall I, wasting in despair, 
Die because a woman's fair ? 
Or make pale my cheeks with care 

'Cause another's rosy are ? 
Be she fairer than the day, 

Or the flow'ry meads in May, 
If she be not so to me, 

What care I how fair she be ? * 

G. Wither, The Shepherd's Resolution. 

Despatchful — So saying, with despatchful looks, in haste 
She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. v. 1. 331. 

Despond — The Slough of Despond. Bunyan, Pilgrim! s Progress. 

Destruction — Pride goeth before destruction. Prov. xvi. is. 

Detraction — An you had any eye behind you, you might see more 
detraction at your heels than fortunes before you. 

Shaks. Twelfth Night, act ii. sc. 5. 

Devil — The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; 
The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.f 

Eabelais, bk. iv. ch. 24. 

Devil — The devil hath power 

To assume a pleasing shape. Shaks. Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2. 



* Sir Walter Raleigh has the credit of writing, — 
" If she undervalue me, 

What care I how fair she be \ " 
t He quotes the Lomhardic proverb, " Passato elpericulo, gabbato el santo ■■ 
the rhyme given above is from Sir T. Urquhart's translation. — Ed. 



DEVIL. 115 

Devil— -Be sober, be vigilant ; because your adversary the devil, as 
a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. 

1 Peter v. 8. 

Devil— The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. 

Shaks. Merchant of Venice, act i. sc. 3. 

Devil — He will give the devil his due. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act i. sc. 2. 

Devil — Go, poor devil, get thee gone ; why should I hurt thee? 
This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me. 

Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vol. ii. ch. 12. 

Devil — And that one hunting, which the devil design 'd, 
For one fair female, lost him half the kind. 

Dryden, Theodore and Honor ia. 

Devil — The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, 
An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice. 

Byron, Don Juan, can. xv. st. 13. 

Devil — There was a laughing devil in his sneer. 

Byron, The Corsair, can. i. st. 9. 

Devil — Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James iv. 7, 

Devil — Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends cooks. 

Garrick, Epigram on Goldsmith's Retaliation. 

Devil — Devil take the hindmost. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. i. can. ii. 1. 633. Prior, Ode on taking 
Namur. Pope, Dunciad, bk. ii. 1. 60. Burns, To a Haggis. 

Devil — He was a man 

Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven 

To serve the devil in. Pollok, The Course of Time, bk. viii. 1. m. 

Devil — 0, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act iii. sc. 1. 

Devil — -Nay, then, let the devil wear black. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Devil — Oh, shame to men ! devil with devil damned 
Firm concord holds : men only disagree 
Of creatures rational. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. 496. 



116 DEVOTION— DIE. 

Devotion — Your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me. 

Deyden, The Maiden Queen, act i. sc. 2. 

Dew — Ilka blade o' grass keps its ain drap o' dew. 

James Ballastyne, 100 Songs, p. 3. 

Dial — True as the dial to the sun, 
Although it be not shined upon. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. iii. can. ii. 1. 175. 

Dial — True as the needle to the pole, 

Or as the dial to the sun. Booth, Song. 

Diana! s foresters — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, 
minions of the moon. Shaks. K. Hen. IV, pt. i. act i. sc. 2. 

Dictynna — Dictynna, good yuan Dull. 

Shaks. Love's Labour's Lost, act iv. sc. 2. 

Didn't — Parson Wilbur sez he never hard in his life 

That th' Apostles rigg'd out in their swallow-tail coats 
An ? marched round in front of a drum an' a fife, 
To git some on 'em office, an' some on 'em votes ; 
But John P. 
Robinson he 
Sez they didn't know everything down in Judee. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers. 

Die — Sighing that Xature formed but one such man, 
And broke the die in moulding Sheridan. 

Byrox, Monody on the Death of Sheridan. 

Die — "Die in the last ditch."* 

Die— Liberty's in every blow ! 

Let us do or die. Burxs, Bannockburn. 

Die — Die of a rose in aromatic pain. Pope, Ess. on Man, ep. i. 1. 200. 

Die — And could we choose the time, and choose aright, 
'Tis best to die, our honour at the height.-f 

Drydex, Palamon and Arcite, bk. iii. 1. 10S6. 

Die — There taught us how to live, and (oh ! too high 
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die. 

Tickell, On the Death of Addison, 1. si. 



* "William of Orange. " There is one certain means," said the prince. 
" by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin — I will die in the last 
ditch." 

t Felix opportunitate mortis. 



DIE— DISGUISES. 117 

Die— Blow, wind ! come, wrack ! 

At least we'll die with harness on our back. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act v. sc. 5. 

Dies — He dies and makes no sign. 

Shaks. K. Henri/ VI, part ii. act iii. sc. s. 

Dignity — Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, 
In every gesture, dignity and love. 

Miltox, Paradise Lost, bk. viii. 1. 48s. 

Dim — The intellectual power through words and things 
Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way. 

Wordswokth, The Excursion, bk. iii. 

Dim — In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds 
On half the nations, and with fear of change 
Perplexes monarchs. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 597. 

Dim — And storied windows richly (light, 

Casting a dim religious light. Miltox, II Penseroso, 1. 159. 

Dine — The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, 
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. 

Pope, The Rape of the Lock, can. iii. 1. 21. 

Discourse — It will discourse most eloquent music. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Discourse — Sure, He that made us with such large discourse, 
Looking before and after, gave us not 
That capability and godlike reason 
To fust in us unused. Ibid, act iv. sc. 4. 

Discourse — So sweet and voluble is his discourse. 

Shaks-. Love's Labour s Lost, act ii. sc. 1. 

Discreetest — So well to know 

Her own, that what she wills to do or say 
Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best I 

Miltox, Paradise Lost, bk. viii. 1. 54s. 

Discretion — The better part of valour is discretion* 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act v. sc. 4. 

Disguises — The world ! what do we know of the age of the world ? 
she is like an old coquette who disguises her age. Voltairiana. 

* It showed discretion, the best part of valour. 

Beaumoxt and Fletcher, A King and No King, act iv. sc. 3. 

Even in a hero's heart 
Discretion is the better part. Churchill, Ghost, i. 1. 232. 



118 DISINHERITING— DIVINITY. 

Disinheriting — An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting 
countenance. Sheridan, School for Scandal, act iii, sc. 1. 

Disposer — I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff. 
.Sir H. Wotton, Preface to the Elements of Architecture. 

Dispraised — -Of whom to be dispraised were no small praise. 

Milton, Paradise Regained, bk. iii. 1. 56. 

Disputation — He'd run in debt by disputation 

And pay by ratiocination. Butler, Hudibras, pt. i. can. i. 

Dissension — Alas ! how light a cause may move 
Dissension between hearts that love ! 
Hearts that the world in vain had tried, 
And sorrow but more closely tied; 
That stood the storm, when waves were rough, 
Yet in a sunny hour fall off, 
Like ships that have gone down at sea, 
TThen heaven was all tranquillity. 

Moore, The Light of the Harem. 

Distance — 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, 
And robes the mountain in its azure hue. 

Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, pt. i. 1. i. 

Distilled — Brandy-and-water ! That is the current, but not, in your 
case, appropriate name : ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled 
damnation, and you may have a gallon. Robert Hall, Life. 

Divided — I do perceive here a divided duty. 

Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. 3. 

Dividends — Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, 
An incarnation of fat dividends. . C. Sprague, Curiosity. 

Divine — To err is human, to forgive divine. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. ii. 1. 5*6. 

Divine — Beauteous as vision seen in dreamy sleep 
By holy maid on Delphi's haunted steep, 
'Mid the dim twilight of the laurel grove, 
Too fair to worship, too divine to love ! 

Milman, Belvidere Apollo, 1. 32. 

Divinity — There's such divinity doth hedge a king, 
That treason can but peep to what it would. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iv. sc. 5. 

Divinity — They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in na- 
tivity, chance, or death . Shaks. Merry W. of Windsor, act v. sc. i . 



DIVINITY— DOG. 119 

Divinity — There's a divinity that shapes our ends, 

Rough hew them how we will. Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. 2. 

Divinity — 'Tis the divinity that stirs icithin us; 
'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, 
And intimates eternity to man. Addison, Cato, act v. sc. 1. 

Dismissing — But, when ill indeed, 

E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. 

Gr. Colman, Lodgings for Single Gentlemen. 

Division — That never set a squadron in the field, 

Nor the division of a battle knows. Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. 1. 

Do — Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. 

Pope, Epilogue to the Satires, dialogue i. 1. 136. 

Do — Do ye hear the children weeping, my brothers, 
Ere the sorrow comes with years ? 
They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, 
And that cannot stop their tears. 

E. B. Browning, Cry of the Children. 

Doctrine — "What makes all doctrine plain and clear? 
About two hundred pounds a-year. 
And that which was proved true before, 
Prove false again ? Two hundred more. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. iii. can. i. 1. 12::. 

Dog — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, 

Than such a Eoman. Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act iv. sc. 3. 

Dog — Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 

Dog — The man recovered of the bite, 

The dog it was that died. Goldsmith, Elegy on a Mad Dog. 

Dog— I am Sir Oracle, 

And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! 

Shaks. Merchant of Venice, act i. sc. 1. 

Dog — For a living dog is better than a dead lion. Eccles. ix. 4. 

Dog — Cel. Xotaword? 

Bos. Not one to throw at a dog. 

Shaks. As You Like It, act i. sc. 3. 

Dog — He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel 
force, 
Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. 

Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 



120 DOG— DOOM. 

Dog — The dog, to gain some private ends, 

Went mad, and bit the man. Goldsmith, Elegy on a Mad Dog. 

Dog — I am his Highness's dog at Kew; 
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you ? 

Pope, On the Collar of a Dog. 

Dogge — The daume of mine would hardly fill a glove, 
It was a ladies little dogge called " love." 

G. Wither, Shepheards Hunting. 

Dogs — The little dogs and all. 

Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me. 

Shaks. K. Lear, act iii. sc. 6. 
Dogs— Throw physic to the dogs : I'll none of it. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act v. sc. 3. 

Dogs — Let dogs delight to bark and bite, 

For God hath made them so ; 

Let bears and lions growl and fight, 

For 'tis their nature too. I. Watts, Divine Songs, song xvi. 

Dome — Him of the Western dome, whose mighty sense 
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, pt. i. 1. 868. 

Dome — Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, 

Stains the white radiance of eternity. Shelley, Adonais. 

Dome — The dome of thought, the palace of the soul. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. ii. st. e. 

Dominions — I am called 

The richest monarch in the Christian world ; 
The sun in my dominions never sets.* 

Schiller, Don Carlos, act i. sc. 6. 

Doom — Alas ! regardless of their doom, 
The little victims play ; 
jSo sense have they of ills to come, 
Nor care beyond to-day.* 

Gray, On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. 

* On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they 
(the Colonies) raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of 
foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to 
be compared ; a power which is dotted over the surface of the whole globe 
with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum beat, following 
the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth in one con- 
tinuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. — Daniel 
Webster, May 7, 1834. 



DOOR— DBAS. 121 

Door — The sweetest thing that ever grew 

Beside a human door. Wordsworth, Lucy Gray, st. 2. 

Dorian — In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood 

Of flutes and soft recorders. Melton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 550. 

Dotage — From Marlborough's eves the streams of dotage flow, 
And Swift expires, a driveller and a show. 

Johxsox, Vanity of Human Wishes, 1. 317. 

Dotes — But oh ! what damned minutes tells he o'er, 
Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, vet strongly loves ! 

Shaks. Othello, act iii. sc. 3. 

Double — Double, double toil and trouble. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act iv. sc. 1. 

Doubt— To be once in doubt 

Is once to be resolved. Shaks. Othello, act iii. sc. 3. 

Doubt — Dou.bt thou the stars are fire ; 
Doubt that the sun doth move ; 
Doubr truth to be a liar ; 

But never doubt I love. Shaks. Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2. 

Doubts — Our doubts are traitors, 

And make us lose the good we oft might win, 

By fearing to attempt. Shaks. Measure for Measure, act i. sc. 5. 

Dove — I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove ; I will roar 
you an 'twere any nightingale. 

Shaks. Midsummer-Night' s Dream, act i. sc. 2. 

Dove — Oh that I had wings like a dove ! Ps. Iv. 6. 

Doves — Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. 

Matt. x. 16. 

Down — I am not now in fortune's power ; 
He that is down can fall no lower.* 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. i. cam iii. 1. srr. 

Doy — I weant break rules for doctor, a knaws naw moor nor a floy ; 
Git ma my yaale I tell tha, an gin I mun doy. I mun doy. 

Tennyson, Northern Farmer. 

Drab — And now, drab-coloured men of Pennsylvania, there is yet 
a moment left. Sydney Smith, Letters on American Debts, let. i. 



* He that is down need fear no fall.— Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progi\ 



122 DRA CHENFELS— DREAMS. 

Drachenfels — The castled crag of Drachenfels 
Frowns o'er the wide and winding Khine. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iii. st. 55. 

Drags — And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, 1. 10. 

Draw — A flattering painter, who made it his care 
To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. 

Goldsmith, Retaliation, 1. 63. 

Draws — Love in sequel works with fate, 
And draws the veil from hidden worth. 

Texxysox, Daydream, L Envoi. 

Dream — Hunt half a day for & forgotten dream. 

Wordsworth, Heart Leap Well, pt. ii.- 

Dream — I had a dream which was not all a dream. 

Byrox, Darhiess, 1. 1. 

Dream — Tell me not, in mournful numbers, 
" Life is but an empty dream !" 
For the soul is dead that slumbers, 
And things are not what they seem. 

LoxGFELLOW, A Psalm of Life. 

Dream — The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, 
The young men's vision, and the old meris dream* 

Drydex, Absalom and Achitophel, pt. i. 1. 238. 

Dreams — Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, 
Are a substantial world, both pure and good : 
Eound these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, 
Our pastime and our happiness will grow. 

Wordsworth, Personal Talk, st. 3. 

Dreams — To all, to each, a fair good-night, 
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. 

Scott, Marmion, can. vi. last lines., 

Dreams — 0, I have passed a miserable night, 
So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights, 
That, as I am a Christian, faithful man, 
I would not spend another such a night 
Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days. 

Shaks. K. Richard III, act i. sc. 4. 



* Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. 
-Joel ii. 28. 



DREGS— DRUID. 123 

Dregs — Condorcet filter' d through the dregs of Paine. 

Canning, Poetry of ye Anti- Jacobin. 

Drink — Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: 
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, 
And drinking largely sobers us again. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. ii. 1. is. 

Drink — Drink, pretty creature, drink. 

Wordsworth, The Pet Lamb. 

Drink — And sooner shall they drink the ocean dry 
Than conquer Malta or endanger us. 

Marlowe, Jew of Malta, concluding speech. 

Drinking — Best while you have it use your breath : 
There is no drinking after death ! 

Beaumont and Fletcher, Rollo, act ii. sc. 2 (song). 

Dryncke — Dryncke is my lyfe, althowghe my wyfe 
Some tyme do chyde & scolde ; 
Yet spare I not to ply the potte 
Of jolly goode ale & olde. 

John Still, Gammer Gurton's Needle. 

Drop — One kind kiss before we part, 

Drop a tear and bid adieu ; 

Though we sever, my fond heart, 

Till we meet, shall pant for you. Dodsley, The Parting Kiss. 

Drops — You are my true and honourable wife, 
As dear to me as are the ruddy d?*ops 
That visit my sad heart. Shaks. Julius Caesar, act ii. sc. 1, 

Drudgery — To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood. 

Charles Lamb, Work. 

Drudgery — A servant with this clause 
Makes drudgery divine ; 
TVho sweeps a room as for Thy laws 

Makes that and the action fine. Geo. Herbert, The Elixir. 

Drugs— You. are going to put drugs of which you know nothing 
into bodies of which you know still less.* Voltairiana. 

Druid — In yonder grave a Druid lies. 

W, Collins, Ode on the Death of Thomson. 



* This saying "was also appropriated by the first Napoleon.— Ed. 



124 BRUM— DURANCE. 

Drum — Xot a drum was heard, not a funeral note. 

C. Wolfe, The Burial of Sir J. Moore. 

Drunken — They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, 
and are at their wit's end. Psalm cvii. 27. 

Dues — Render therefore to all their dues. Rom. xiii. 7. 

Dukedom — Me, poor man, my library 

Was dukedom large enough. Shaks. Tempest, act i. sc. 2. 

Dull — I never was on the dull tame shore, 
But I loved the great sea more and more. 

B. W. Procter, The Sea. 

Dull — This king was born in dull Boeotian air.* Francis, Horace. 

Dulness — And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke. 

Pope, The Dunciad, bk. ii. 1. 34. 

Dumb — On their own merits modest men are dumb. 

Gr. Colmax, Broad Grins, Ep. to the Heir-at-Law. 

Dumpy — She, in sooth, 

Possessed an air and grace by no means common ; 
Her stature tall, — / hate a dumpy woman. 

Byrox, Don Juan, can. i. st. 61. 

Dunce — How much a dunce that has been sent to roam 
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home ! 

Cowper, The Progress of Error. 

Dunce — A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. 

Pope, The Dunciad, bk. iv. 1. 92, 

Dundee — for a single hour of that Dundee 
Who on that day the word of onset gave. 

Wordsworth, Sonnet in the Pass of Killicrankie. 

Dupes — There, ye wise Saints, behold your light, your star ; 
Ye would be dupes and victims, and ye are.f 

Moore, Lalla Rookh, Veil. Pro. ed. 1843, 
Complete Works, p. 345. 

Durance — In durance vile here must I wake and weep, 
And all my frowzy couch in sorrow steep. 

Burns, Ep.from Esopus to Maria. 



* Bceotum in crasso jurares aere natum. — Horace, bk. ii. ep. i. 1. 244. 
t Quoted by the Times on the occasion of the catastrophe at Santiago. 



DUSKY— DYEB. 125 

Dusky — I wiH take some savage woman : she shall rear my dusky 
race* Tennyson, Locksley Hall, 

Dust — Oh, sir, the good die first ; 

And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust 
Burn to the socket. Wordsworth, The Excursion, bk. i. 

Dust — His enemies shall lick the dust. Psalm lxxii. 9. 

Dust — Great contest follows, and much learned dust. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. iii. The Garden. 

Dust — Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was ; and the spirit 
shall return unto God who gave it. Eccles. xii. 7. 

Dust — The knight's bones are dust, 
And his good sword rust ; 
His soid is with the saints, I trust. 

Coleridge, The Knight's Tomb. 

Dust — In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread .... for 
dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Gen. iii. 19. 

Dwarf- — A dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the 
giant's shoulders to mount on. Coleridge, Friend, sec. i. ess. 8. 

Dyer's hand — My nature is subdued 

To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Shaks. Sonnet cxi. 



Oh, that I had been nourish'd in these woods .... 
And then had taken me some mountain girl, 
Beaten with winds, chaste as the harden'd rocks 
"Whereon she dwells; that might have strew'd my bed 
With leaves, and reeds, and with the skins of beasts, 
Our neighbours ; and have borne at her big breasts 
My large coarse issue. 

Beaoioxt and Fletcher, Philaster, act iv. sc. 2. 




EACH— EAR. 




A CH — Each particular hair to stand an end, 
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. a, 

Each — Let each esteem other better than them- 
selves. Philippians ii. 3. 

Eager-hearted — Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his 
father's field, 
And at night along the dusky highway, near and nearer drawn, 
Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn. 

Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 

Eagle — Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation 
rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her 
invincible locks ; methinks I see her, as an eagle mewing her 
mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eves at the full mid- 
day beam. Milton, Areopagitica. 

Eagle — So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, 
±so more through rolling clouds to soar again, 
Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, 
And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. 

Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 1. 826. 

Eagle's fate — That eagle's fate and mine are one, 
Which, on the shaft that made him die, 
Espied a feather of his own, 

Wherewith he wont to soar so high. 

Waller, To a Lady singing a Song of his composing. 

Ear — Where more is meant than meets the ear. 

Milton, H Penseroso, 1. 120. 



EAR — EARTH. 127 

Ear — That palter with us in a double sense; 
Thar keep the word of promise to our ear, 
And break it to our hope. Shaks. Macbeth, act v. sc. 7. 

Ear — Wrong soil- by the ear. 

Ben Jonson. Every Man in his Humour, act ii. sc. 1. But- 
ler, Hudibras, pt. ii. can. iii. 1. sso. Colman, Heir- 

at-Law, act i. sc. l. 
Earnest — Our age is but the falling- of a leaf, 
A dropping tear. 
TVe have not time to sport away the hours ; 
All m ust be earnest in a world like ours. 

Dr. Bonae, Our One Life, 

Ears — Thy old groans ring vet in my ancient ears. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. s. 

Ears — He that hath tars to hear, let him hear. Mark iv. 9. 

Ears — Tear a passion to tatters,, to very rags, to split the ears of 
the groundlings. Shaks, Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Ears — -Whose words all ears took captive. 

Shaks. All 's Well that Ends Well, act v. sc. 3. 

Earth— Earth, lie gently on their aged bones-!* 

S. May, The Old Couple, act 1. 

Earth — Lie light the earth ; and flourish green the bough. 

Prior, To Memory of Colonel Villiers, 1. 88. 
Earth — And to his eve 

There was but one beloved face on earth, 

And that was shining on him. Byron, The Dream, st. 2, 

Earth — The first man is of the earth, earthy. 1 Cor. xv. 47, 

Earth — Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, 
Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe 
That all was lost. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. is. 1. 7-2. 

Earth — Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, 
First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea. 

Moors, Remember Thee, 
Earth — Earth, air, and ocean, glorious three. 

Robert Montgomery, Woman. 
Earth — Earth, ocean, air, beloved brotherhood. Shelley, Alastor. 

* And the green leaf lie lightly on thy breast. — Pope, Eleg. Unfort. Lady. 
Lie gently on ray ashes, gentle Earth. 

Bsaumokt and Fletcher, Bonduca, act iv. sc. 3. 



12S EARTH. 

Earth — No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, 
All earth forgot, and all heaven around us. 

Moore, Come o'er the Sea. 

Earth — Earth here is so hind, that just tickle her with a hoe, and 
she laughs into harvest. D. Jeeeoee, Chronicles of Clovernook. 

Earth — There were giants in the earth in those days. Gen. vi. 4. 

Earth — The common growth of mother Earth 
Suffices me, — her tears, her mirth, 
Her humblest mirth and tears. 

Wordsworth, Peter Bell, prologue, st. 2:. 

Earth — Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. 

Moors, Come, ye Disconsolate. 

Earth — Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. 

Coleeedge. Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni. 

Ear:;: — Some feelings are to mortals given 
With less of earth in them than heaven. 

Scott, The Lady of the Lake, can. ii. st. 22. 

Earth — There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, 

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. 

Shaes. Hamlet, act i. sc. 5. 
Earth — Earth proudly wears the Parthenon 

As the best gem upon her zone. E. W. Emerson, The Problem. 

Earth — TH put a girdle round about the earth 

In forty minutes. 

Shaks. Midsummer-Xight's Dream, act ii. sc. 1. 

Earth — Ye are the salt of the earth : but if the salt have lost his 
savour, wherewith shall it be salted? Matt, v. is. 

Earth — A youth to whom was given 

5o much of earth, so much of heaven. Wordsworth, Ruth. 

Earth — The thirsty earth soaks up the rain. 
And drinks and gapes for drink again; 
The plants suck in the earth, and are 
"With constant drinking fresh and fair. 

Cowley, Erora Anacreon. 

Earth — Thou sure and firm-set earth, 

Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear 
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act ii. sc. 1. 



EARTH— ECHO. 129 

Earth — To smell a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; 
no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul. 

Fuller, Holy State, The Virtuous Lady. 

Earth — Truths crushed to earth, shall rise again: 
The eternal years of God are hers ; 
But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, 
- And dies among his worshippers. 

W. C. Bryant, The Battle-field. 

Earth — I am going the way of cdl the earth. Josh, xxiii. 14. 

Earth's noblest — Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected. 

J. K. Lowell, Irene. 

Earthlier — But earthlier happy is the rose distilled 
Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, 
Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness. 

Shaks. Midsummer-Night's Dream, act i. sc. 1. 

Earthly — Thus heavenly hope is all serene; 
But earthly hope, how bright soe''er, 

Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene, 
As false and fleeting as 'tis fair. 

Heber, On Heavenly Hope and Earthly Hope. 

Ease — TThate'er he did was done with so much ease. 
In him alone 'twas natural to please. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, pt. i. 1. 2;. 

Ease — Shall I not take mine ease in -mine inn? 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act iii. sc. 3. 

Easy — 'Tis as easy as lying. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Easy — You write with ease to show your breeding, 
But easy writing s cursed hard reading. 

Sheridan, CI ids Protest. 

Eett — To eat, and to drink, and to be merry. 

Eccles. viii. 15; Luke xii. 19. 

Eaten — He hath eaten me out of house and home. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part ii. act ii. sc. 1. 

Echo — Hark to the hurried question of despair, 
Where is my child? And Echo answers Where ? * 

Byron, Bride of Abydos, can. ii. 1. 2:. 

* I came to the place of my birth and cried, " The friends of my youth, 
where are they ; " And an echo answered, u "Where are they ! " 

From the Arabic. 



130 ECHOING— ELEMENTS. 

Echoing — High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ix. 1. nor. 
Ecstasy — This is the very ecstasy of love. 

Shaks. Hamlet , act ii. sc. 1. 
Edified — Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. ii. The Timepiece. 

Educated — If you suffer your people to be ill educated .... you 
first make thieves and then punish them. More, Utopia, bk. i. 

Education — 'Tis education forms the common mind; 
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. i. 1. 149. 

Education — I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and 
noble education ; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so 
smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious 
sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not mere 
charming. Miltox, Of Education. 

Eel — How index-learning turns no student pale, 
Yet holds the eel of science by the tail. 

Pope, The Dunciad, bk. i. 1. 279. 

Ef—Ef you take a sword ari dror it, 
An' go stick a feller thru, 
Guvment ain't to answer for it, 

God '11 send the bill to you. Lowell, Biglow Papers, p. 5. 

Egg — The vulgar boil, the learned roast an egg. 

Pope, Satires, ep. ii. bk. ii. 1. 85. 

Elder — Let still the woman take 

An elder than herself; so wears she to him, 
So sways she level in her husband's heart; 
For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, 
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, 
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, 
Than women's are. Shaks. Twelfth Night, act ii. sc. 4. 

Elements — She walks the waters like a thing of life, 
And seems to dare the elements to strife. 

Byrox, The Corsair, can. i. at. 3. 

Elements — His life was gentle, and the elements 

, So mixed in him that Nature might stand up 

And say to all the world, This was a man ! 

Shaks. Julius Casar, act v. sc. 5. 



ELEPHANTS— E MP L O YMEXTS. 131 

Elephants — So geographers, in Afric maps, 
With savage pictures fill their gaps, 
And o'er unhabitable downs 
Place elephants for want of towns. 
So, naturalists observe, a ilea 
Has smaller fleas that on him prey ; 
And these have smaller still to bite 'em, 
And so proceed ad infinitum. Swift, Poetry, a Bhapsody 

Eloquence — In discourse more sweet, 

(For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,) 
Others apart sat on a hill retired, 
In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high 
Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; 
Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, 
And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. 555. 

Eloquence — Xo words suffice the secret soul to show; 
For truth denies all eloquence to woe, 

Byrox, The Corsair, can. iii. st. 22. 

Eloquent — That old man eloquent. Milton, Sonnets, son. x. 

Eloquent — Was the slave so eloquent in his malice? 

T. Ejllegrew, Parson's Wedding, act i. sc. 1. 

Elves — But, spite of all the criticizing elves, 

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. 

Churchill, The Bosciad, 1. sei. 

Elysium — Who as they sung would take the prisoned soul 

And lap it in Elysium. Miltox, Comus, 1. 25?. 

Elysium — And, oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, 

It is this, it is this. Moore, The Light of the Harem. 

Embattled — Here once the embattled farmers stood, 
And fired the shot heard round the world. 

R. TV. Emersox, Hymn at the Concord Monument. 

Empire — Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, 
Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. 

Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard. 

Employments — How various his employments whom the world 
Calls idle : and who justly in return 
Esteems the busy world an idler too ! 

Cowper, The Task, bk. iii. The Garden, 



132 EMPL O YMENTS— ENGLAND. 

Employments — Wishing, of all the employments, is the icorst. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night iv. 1. n. 

EnamelVd — He makes sweet music with th' enamelV d stones, 
Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge 
He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. 

Shaks. Two Gentlemen of Verona, act ii. sc. r. 

Encounter — To leave this keen encounter of our uits. 

Shaks. K. Richard III, act i. sc. 2. 

Encourage — " Just to encourage the others;' Mais dans ce pays- 
ci il est hon de tuer de temps en temps an amiral, pour encourager 
les autres. Voltaire, Candide, chap, xxiii. on 

Admiral Bvng's execution. 

End — The end must justify the means. Prior, Hans Carvel. 

End — Stay a little, that we make an end the sooner. 

Oxexstierx, also Bacon, Essay xxv. 

Endure — Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, 
As, to he hated, needs but to be seen ; 
Yet, seen too oft, familiar with her face, 
TTe first endure, then pity, then embrace. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. ii. 1. 217. 

Endured — Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act iii. sc. 3. 

Enemies — Had I but served my God with half the zeal 
I served my king, he would not in mine age 
Have left me naked to mine enemies. 

Shaks. A'. Henry VIII, act iii. sc. 2. 

Enemy — How goes the enemy ? Eeyxolds, The Dramatist. 

Enemy — A thing devised by the enemy. 

Shaks. K. Richard III, act v. sc. 3. 

Enginer — For 'tis the sport to have the enginer 

Hoist with his own petard. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4. 

England — England, with cdl thy faults, I love thee still.* 

Cowper, The Task, bk. ii. The Timepiece. 



Be England vrhat she will, 
With all her faults, she is my country still. 

Churchill, Fareivell. 



ENGLISH— EPITOME. 133 

English — Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled. 

Spenser, Faerie Queene, bk. iv. can. ii. st. 32. 

Enough — Enough is as good as a feast. 

Bickerstaff, Love in a Village, act ii. sc. 1. 

Enskyed — I hold you as a thing enskyed and sainted. 

Shaks. Measure for Measure, act i. sc. 5. 

Enterprise — This sickness doth infect 

The very life-blood of our enterprise. 

Shaks. King Henry IV, part i. act iv. sc. 1. 

Enterprises — He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages 
to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either 
of virtue or mischief. 

Bacon, Essay vm. Of Marriage and Single Life. 

Entertained — Be not forgetful to entertain strangers : for thereby 
some have entertained angels unawares. Heb. xiii. 2. 

Envy — Envy is a kind of praise. Gtay, Hound and Huntsmen. 

Envy — Envy will merit as its shade pursue, 
But like a shadow proves the substance true. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. ii. 1. 266. 

Envy — Base envy withers at another s joy, 
And hates that excellence it cannot reach. 

Thomson, The Seasons, Spring, 1. 283. 

Ephesian — The aspiring youth, that fired the Ephesian dome, 
Outlives in fame the pious fool that raised it. 

Cibber, Richard III, altered, act iii. sc. 1. 

Epicurus' sty — The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty. 

Will. Mason, Heroic Ep. 

Epitaph — Let there be no inscription upon my tomb ; let no man 
write my epitaph : no man can write my epitaph. 

B. Emmet, Speech on Trial, Sept. 1803. 

Epitome — A man so various, that he seemed to be 
Xot one, but all mankind's epitome; 
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, 
Was everything by starts, and nothing long, 
But in the course of one revolving moon 
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, pt. i. 1. 545. 



134 EQUAL— ETERNITY. 

Equal — Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; 
Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. 

Goldsmith, Retaliation, 1. 37. 

Ercles* vein — This is Erclei vein. 

Shaks. Midsummer-Night's Dream, act i. sc. 2. 

Erring — And lovelier things have mercy shown 
To every failing but their own, 
And every woe a tear can claim, 
Except an erring sister's shame. Byron, The Giaour, 1. 4is. 

Erring — If you miscarry, you are lost so far ; 
For there's no erring twice in love or war. 

Pomfre*t, Love Triumphant. 

Errors — If to her share some female errors fall, 
Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. 

Pope, The Rape of the Lock, can. ii. 1. 17. 

Er?°ors — Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow ; 
He who would search for pearls must dive beloAv. 

Drydex, Annus Mirabilis, st. 39. 

Eruption — This bodes some strange eruption to our state. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 1. 

Eruptions — Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth 

In strange eruptions. Shaks. K. Henry IV, pt. i. act iii. sc. 1. 

Eternal — Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 
As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. 

Pope, Ep. to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prol. to the Satires, 1. 314. 

Eternal — Eternal summer gilds them yet, 
But all, except their sun, is set. 

Byron, Don Juan, can. iii. st. 86. v. 1. 

Eternal — Eternal sunshine settles on its head. 

Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 1. 192. 

Eternities — This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, 
The past, the future, two eternities. 

Moore, Lalla Rookh, The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. 

Eternity — A day, an hour of virtuous liberty 

Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. Addison, Cato, act ii. sc. 1. 

Eternity — He that lacks time to mourn lacks time to mend : 
Eternity mourns that. H. Taylor, Van Artevelde, pt. i. act i. sc. 5. 



ETERNITY— EVER. 135 

Eternity — That golden key 

That opes the palace of eternity. Milton, Comus, 1. 1.3. 

Eternity — For who would lose, 

Though full of pain, this intellectual being, 
Those thoughts that wander through eternity? 
To perish rather, swallowed up and lost 
In the wide tomb of uncreated night. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. ue. 
Ethiop — The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, 
Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; 
The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, 

As keen-eyed, cold, and fair. Anonymous. 

Ethiopian — Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his 
spots? Jer. xiii. 23. 

Etrurian — Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks 

In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades 
■ High over-arched imbower. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 303. 

Eve — From morn 

To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, 

A summer's day. Ibid. bk. i. 1. 742. 

Eve — A child of our grandmother Eve, a female ; or, for thy more 
sweet understanding, a woman. 

Shaks. Love's Labour s Lost, act i. sc. 1. 
Evening — Now came still Evening on, and Twilight grey 
Had in her sober livery all things clad. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iv. 1. 598. 
Evening — Soon as the evening shades prevail, 
The moon takes up the wondrous tale, 
And nightly to the listening earth 
Repeats the story of her birth ; 
TThile all the stars that round her burn, 

And all the planets in their turn, 
Confirm the tidings as they roll, 

And spread the truth from pole to pole. Addison, Ode. 

Events — Often do the spirits 

Of great events stride on before the events, 
And in to-day already walks to-morrow. 

Coleridge, The Death of Wallenstein, act v. sc. 1. 
Ever — Ever charming, ever new, 

When will the landscape tire the view ? 

J. Dyer, Grongar Hill, 1. 103. 



136 EVERLASTING— EVIL. 

Everlasting — Here comes the lady : 0, so light a foot 
Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 6. 

Every — Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, 
And every conqueror creates a muse. 

Waller's Panegyric on Cromwell; quoted in 
Dr. Ilurd's Dialogues. 

Every — Ay, every inch a king ! Shaks. K. Lear, act iv. sc. 6. 

Every — Every one is as God made him, and oftentimes a great 
deal worse. Cervantes, Don Quixote, pt. ii. ch. 4. 

Every — And every shepherd tells his tale. 

Under the hawthorn in the dale. Milton, E Allegro, 1. 67. 

Every — Whatever sceptic could inquire for, 
For every " why" he had a " wherefore" 

Butler, Hudibras, part i. can. i. 1. m. 

Every — Men, some to business, some to pleasure take ; 
But every woman is at heart a rake. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. ii. 1. 215. 

Everywhere — His time is for ever, everywhere his place. 

Cowley, Friendship in Absence. 

Evidence — Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the 
evidence of things not seen. Heb. xi. 1. 

Evil — Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. 

Rom. xii. 21. 
Evil — So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear; 

Farewell remorse ! all good to me is lost. 

Evil, be thou my good. Miltox, Paradise Lost, bk. iv. 1. 108. 

Evil — Be not deceived : evil communications corrupt good manners. 

1 Cor. xv. 33. 
Evil — For evil is wrought 
By want of thought 
As well as want of heart. Hood, The Lady's Dream. 

Evil — As some affirm that we say, Let us do evil, that good may 
come. Rom. iii. 8. 

Evil — For the love of money is the root of all evil. 1 Tim. vi. 10. 

Evil — For evil news rides post, while good news baits. 

Milton, Samson Agonistes, 1. 1538. 

Evil — By evil report, and good report. 2 Cor. vi. 8. 



EVIL—EXPECTA TION. 137 

Evil — From seeming evil still educing good. Thomson, Hymn, 1. 114. 

Evils — Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen. 

Thos. a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, bk. iii. ch. 12. 

Excellent — Her voice was ever soft, 

Gentle, and low — an excellent thing in woman. 

Shaks. King Lear, act v. sc. 3. 

Excess — To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, 
To throw a perfume on the violet, 
To smooth the ice, or add another hue 
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light 
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, 
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Shaks. K. John, act iv. sc. 2. 

Excuse — Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen, 
Here's to the widow of fifty ; 
Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean, 
And here's to the housewife that's thrifty. 
Let the toast pass ; 
Drink to the lass : 
I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass. 

Sheridan, School for Scandal, act iii. sc. 3. 

Execrable — TYTience and what art thou, execrable shape ? 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. 681. 

Execute — Execute their aery purposes. Ibid. bk. i. 1. 430. 

Exhalation — A fabric huge 

Rose, like an exhalation. Ibid. bk. i. 1. 710. 

Exile — There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin, 
The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill ; 
For his country he sighed, when at twilight repairing 
To wander alone by the wind-beaten hill. 

Campbell, The Exile of Erin. 

Expectation — He hath indeed better bettered expectation. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act i. sc. 1. 

Expectation — Oft expectation fails, and most oft there 
YV r here most it promises. 

Shaks. All 's Well that Ends Well, act ii. sc. 1. 

Expectation — 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear ; 
Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were. 

Sir J. Suckling, Against Fruition. 



138 EXPERIENCE— EYE. 

Experience — For just experience tells, in every soil, 
That those that think must govern those that toil. 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, 1. 372. 

Experience — I had rather have a fool to make me merry than 
experience to make me sad. Shaks. As You Like It, act iv. sc. 1. 

Explain — Stuff the head 

"With all such reading as was never read ; 
For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, 
And write about it, goddess, and about it. 

Pope, The Dunciad, bk. iv. 1. 249. 

Explain — Me let the tender office long engage 
To rock the cradle of reposing age, 
AYith lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 
Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; 
Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, 
And keep awhile one parent from the sky. 

Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Pro. to Satires, 1. 419. 

Exposition — I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. 

Shaks. Midsummer- Night 's Dream, act iv. sc. 1. 

Expressive — Come, then, expressive silence, muse his praise. 

Thomson, Hymn, 1. ns. 

Extenuate — Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, 
Xor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak 
Of one that loved not wisely, but too well. 

Shaks. Othello, act v. sc. 2. 
Extreme — Give me more love, or more disdain ; 
The torrid, or the frozen zone, 
Bring equal ease unto my pain ; 

The temperate affords me none : 
Either extreme of love or hate 
Is sweeter than a calm estate. Thos. Carew, Songs, song xi. 

Extremes — Extremes in nature equal good produce. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. iii. 1. lei. 

Eye — Into the eye and prospect of his soul. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act iv. sc. 1. 

Eye — Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. 

Deut. xix. 21. 
Eye — The harvest of a quiet eye, 

That broods and sleeps on his own heart. 

Wordsworth, A Poefs Epitaph, st. 13. 



EYE— EYES. 139 

Eye — In my mind's eye, Horatio. Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. 

Eye — All seems infected that th' infected spy, 
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. ii. 1. 358. 

Eye — He drew a dial from his poke, 

And looking on it with Jack -J list re eye, 
Says, very wisely, " It is ten o'clock. 
Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags." 

Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7. 

Eye — Alack ! there lies more peril in thine eye 
Than twenty of their swords. 

Shaks. Borneo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 2. 

Eye — As ever in my great Taskmaster s eye. 

jIiltox, Sonnets, son. i. 

Eye — Friendship is constant in all other things, 
Save in the office and affairs of love. 
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues ; 
Let every eye negotiate for itself, 
And trust no agent. Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act ii. sc. 1. 

Eye — It adds a precious seeing to the eye. 

Shaks. Love's Labour s Lost, act iv. sc. 3. 

Eye — The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the 
human eye, contract themselves the more the stronger light 
there is shed upon them. 

Moore, Preface to Corruption and Intolerance. 

Eye — His fair large front and eye sublime declared 
Absolute rule ; and hyacinthine locks 
Round from his parted forelock manly hung 
Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad. 

Miltox, Paradise Lost, bk. iv. 1. 300. 

Eye — In the twinkling of an eye. 1 Cor. xv. 52. 

Eye — Stabbed with a white wench 's black eye. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 4. 

Eyes — A noticeable man, with large gray eyes. 

Wordsworth, Description of Coleridge. 

Eyes — To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, 
And read their history in a nation's eyes. 

Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard. 



140 EYES. 

Eyes — There was a sound of revelry by night, 
And Belgium's capital had gathered then 
Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright 
The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; 
A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when 
Music arose with its voluptuous swell, 
Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, 
And all went merry as a marriage-bell. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iii. st. 21. 

Eyes — The light that lies 
In woman s eyes, Moore, The Time Tve Lost, Sfc. 

Eyes — My eyes make pictures when they are shut. 

Coleridge, A Day -Dream. 

Eyes — Thou hast 720 speculation in those eyes 

Which thou dost glare with. Shaks. Macbeth, act iii. sc. 4. 

Eyes — The eyes that shone 

Now dimmed and gone. Moore, Oft in the Stilly Night. 

Eyes — Ladies, whose bright eyes 

Bain influence. Milton, E Allegro, 1. 121. 

Eyes — And looks commercing with the skies, 

Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes. Milton, 77 Penseroso, 1. 39. 

Eyes — Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, 
The shooting- stars attend thee ; 
And the elves also, 
Whose little eyes glow 
Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee. 

Herrick, Night Piece to Julia. 




FA CE. 




ACE — Let nothing but a. face of joy appear ; 

The man who frowns this day shall lose his head, 
That he may have no face to frown withal. 

Fielding, Tom Thumb. 

Face — Can't I another's /ace commend. 
And to her virtues be a friend, 
But instantly your forehead lowers, 
As if her merit lessened yours ? 

Moore, fable ix. The Farmer, the Spaniel, and the Cat. 

Fact — And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace 
A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace, 
Of finer form, or lovelier face. 

Scott, The Lady of the Lake, can. i. st. is. 

Face — As if the man had fixed his face 

In many a solitary place, 
Against the wind and open sky ! 

Wordswobth, Peter Bell, pt, i. st. 26. 

Face — There's no art 

To find the mind's construction in the- face. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 4. 

Face — The light of love, the purity of grace, 
The mind, the music breathing from her face, 
The heart whose softness harmonized the whole, 
And oh ! that eye was in itself a soul. 

Byrox, The Bride of Abydos, can. i. st. 6. 



142 FACE— FAIR. 

Face — He lives to build, not boast a generous race ; 
Xo tenth transmitter of a foolish face, 

R. Savage, The Bastard, 1. 7. 

Facts — The right honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory 
for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. 

Sheridan, Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas. 

Faculty— -The vision and the faculty divine. 

Wordsworth, The Excursion, bk. i. 

Fade — We all do fade as a leaf Isaiah lxiv. 6. 

Fagoted — He fagoted his notions as they fell, 
And if they rhymed and rattled, all went well. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 1. 419. 

Fail — In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves 
For a bright manhood there is no such word 
As "fail" Lytton, Richelieu, act ii. sc. 2. 

Fail — They never fail who die 

In a great cause. Byron, Marino Faliero, act ii. sc. 2. 

Failings — And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side. 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, 1. 164. 

Fain — Fain woidd I climb, but that I fear to fall.* 

Faint — Faint heart ne'er won fair lady. 

Will. King, Orpheus and Eurydice, 1. 134. 

Fair — Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. l. 
Fair — Is she not passing fair ? 

Shaks. Two Gentlemen of Verona, act iv. sc. 4. 

Fair — If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, 
Go visit it by the pale moonlight. 

Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel, can. ii. st. l. 

Fair-spoken — He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one : 
Exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading ; 
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, 
But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer. 

Shaks. K. Henry VIII, act iv. sc. 2. 



* Said to be written by Sir Walter Raleigh on a pane of glass in Queen Eliza- 
beth's presence. Her answer is, — 

" If thy heart fail thee, why then climb at all ? " 
which is a good English adaptation of Ovid's " Aut non tentaris aut per- 
ficer'—Rj). 



FAIREST— FAITH. 143 

Fairest — Our fairest dreams are made of truths. 

Leigh Hunt, Bodryddan. 

Fairy — And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest. 

Gray, The Bard, pt. iii. st. 3. 

Fairy — By fairy hands their knell is rung; 
By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; 
There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, 
To bless the turf that wraps their clay. Collins, Ode in 1746. 

Faith — 'Tis hers to pluck the amaranthine flower 
Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind 
Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, 
And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. 

Wordsworth, Miscell. Sonnets, pt. i. 35. 

Faith — Whose faith has centre everywhere, 

!Nor cares to fix itself to form. Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxxiii. 

Faith — One in whom persuasion and belief 
Had ripened into faith, and faith become 
A passionate intuition. Wordsworth, The Excursion, bk. iv. 

Faith — In this awfully stupendous manner, at which reason stands 
aghast, and faith herself is half confounded, was the grace of 
God to man at length manifested. 

Eich. Hurd, Sermons, vol. ii. p. 287. 

Faith — But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast 
To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. 

Moore, Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. 

Faith — We must be free or die, who speak the tongue 
That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold 
Which Milton held. Wordsworth, Sonnets to National Inde- 
pendence and Liberty, pt, i. 16. 

Faith — The enormous faith of many made for one. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iii. 1. 242. 

Faith — His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might 
Be wrong ; his life, I'm sure, was in the right. 

Cowley, On the Death of Crashaw. 

Faith — There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. 

Shaks. Julius CcBsar, act iv. sc. 2. 

Faith — We walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Cor. v. 7. 



144 FAITHFUL— FALSEHOOD. 

Faithful — So spake the Seraph 'Ahd'iel, faithful found 
Among the faithless, faithful only he. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. v. 1. 896. 

Falcon — A falcon, towe?'ing in her pride of place, 
Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act ii. sc. 4. 

Fall — If music be the food of love, play on ; 
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, 
The appetite may sicken, and so die. 
That strain again ! — it had a dying fall ; 
0, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, 
That breathes upon a bank of violets, 
Stealing and giving odour ! Shaks. Twelfth Night, act i. sc. i. 

Fall — Great Caesar fell. 

O, what a fall was there, my countrymen ! 

Shaks. Julius CcBsar, act iii. sc. 2. 

Falling-off—O Hamlet, what a falling -off was there! 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 5. 

Falling — A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, 
And greatly falling with a falling state. 

Pope, Prologue to Addison's Cato. 

Falls — Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye : 
I feel my heart new open'd. 0, how wretched 
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours ! 
There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, 
That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, 
More pangs and fears than wars or women have : 
And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, 
Never to hope again. Shaks. K. Henry VIII, act iii. sc. 2. 

Falls — He that will to bed go sober, 

Falls with the leaf still in October. 

Beaumont and Fletcher, Folio, act ii. sc. 2. 

False — False as dicers' oaths. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4. 

False — Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. 565. 

Falsehood — The first 

That practised falsehood under saintly show, 
Deep malice to conceal. Ibid. bk. iv. 1. 122. 



FAME— FANCY. 145 

Fame — Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 
(That last infirmity of noble mind) 
To scorn delights and live laborious days ; 
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, 
And think to burst out into sudden blaze, 
Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, 
And slits the thin-spun life. Milton, Lycidas, 1. 70. 

Fame — What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill 
A certain portion of uncertain paper. 

Byrox, Don Juan, can. i. st. 218. 

Fame — Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame. 

Byrox, Monody on the Death of Sheridan, 1. 63. 

Fame's temple — Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb 
The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? 

James Beattie, The Minstrel, bk. i. st. 1. 

Familiar — But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and 

mine own familiar friend. Psahn lv. u. Prayer-bk. version. 

Familiar spirit — A man also or woman that hath a. familiar spirit. 

Lev. xx. 27. 

Familiars — All my familiars watched for my halting. Jer. xx. 10. 

Famous — I'll make thee glorious by my pen, 
And famous by my sword. 

Marquis of Moxtrose, Song, My Dear and Only Love. 

Famous — I awoke one morning, and found myself famous. 

Byrox, Memoranda from his Life. 

Famous — " But what good came of it at last ? n 
Quoth little Peterkin. 
"Why, that I cannot tell," said he; 
" But 'twas a famous victory. ,, 

Southey, The Battle of Blenheim. 

Fancies — Not so sick, my lord, 

As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies, 
That keep her from her rest. Shaks. Macbeth, act v. sc/3. 

Fancy — We figure to ourselves 

The thing we like, and then we build it up, 
As chance will have it, on the rock or sand : 
For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, 
And home-bound fancy runs her bark ashore. 

Taylor, P. van Artevelde, pt. i. act i. sc. 5. 

L 



146 FANCY— FA S CINA TION. 

Fancy — While fancy, like the finger of a clock, 
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. iv. The Winter Evening. 

Fancy's course — All impediments infancy's course 

Are motives of more fancy. 

Shaks. All 's Well that Ends Well, act v. sc. 3. 

Fancy's ray — Misled by fancy's meteor ray, 
By passion driven ; 
But yet the light that led astray 

Was light from heaven. Burns, The Vision. 

Fantastic — Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, 
Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain ? 
Vain as the leaf upon the stream, 
And fickle as a changeful dream, 
Fantastic as a woman's mood, 
And fierce as Frenzy's fevered blood, 
Thou many-headed monster thing,* 
who would wish to be thy king? 

Scott, The Lady of the Lake, can. v. st. 30. 

Far — Far as the solar walk or milky way. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. i. 1. 102. 

Fare — Fare thee well ! and if for ever, 

Still for ever, fare thee well. Byrox, Fare Thee Well. 

Farewell — Farewell, happy fields, 

Where joy for ever dwells ! hail, horrors ! hail. 

Miltox, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 249. 

Farewell — Farewell! • 

For in that word, — that fatal word, — howe'er 
We promise — hope — believe, — there breathes despair. 

Byron, The Corsair, can. i. st. 15. 

Farewell — Farewell ! a word that must be, and hath been : 
A sound which makes us linger, — yet — farewell. 

Byrox, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. 186. 

Fascination — Some to the fascination of a name 
Surrender judgment hoodwinked. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. vi. Winter Walk at Noon. 



* "The many-headed monster." — See quotation from Massinger under this 
head. 



FA SHIO N—FA UL T. 147 

Fashion — The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, 

The observed of all observers ! Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 1. 

Fashion — For the fashion of this world passeth away. 1 Cor. vii. si. 

Fast — Fast bind, fast find, 

A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.* 

Shaks. Merchant of Venice, act ii. sc. o. 

Fasting — Down on your knees, 

And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good mans lore. 

Shaks. As You Like It, act iii. sc. 5. 

Fat — Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat. 

Piozzi, Life of Johnson. 

Fat — And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed 
That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 5. 

Fatal — It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman, 
Which gives the stern' st good night. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act ii. sc. 2. 

Fate — Eoll darkling down the torrent of his fate. 

Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, 1. 346. 

Fate — He either fears his fate too much, 
Or his deserts are small, 
Who dares not put it to the touch 
To gain or lose it all. 

Marquis of Montrose, Song, My Dear and Only Love. 

Father — Old father antic the law. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act i. sc. 2. 

Father — Father of ' cdl I in every age, 
In every clime adored, 
By saint, by savage, and by sage, 

Jehovah, Jove, or Lord. Pope, Universal Prayer, 

Father — My father's brother ; but no more like my father 

Than I to Hercules. Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. 

Fault — And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault 
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. 

Shaks. King John, act iv. sc. 2. 



* Dry sun, dry wind, 
Safe bind, safe find. 
Tusser. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. 



148 FA ULT— FEASTING. 

Fault — Every one fault seeming monstrous, till his fellow-fault came 
to match it. Shaks. As You Like It, act iii. sc. 2. 

Faults — In other men we faults can spy, 
And blame the mote that dims their eye : 
Each little speck and blemish find, 
To our own stronger errors blind. Gay, Turkey and Ant. 

Faults — Oh, what a world of vile ill-favoured /cw/te 
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a-year ! 

Shaks. Merry Wives of Windsor, act iii. sc. 4. 

Favourite — A favourite has no friend. 

Gray, On the Death of a Favourite Cat. 

Favourite — To be a Prodigal' s favourite — then worse truth; 
A Miser's pensioner — behold our lot ! 
Man, that from thy fair and shining youth 
Age might but take the things Youth needed not. 

"Woedsworth, The Sniall Celandine. 

Fear — Thenar 0' helVs a hangman's whip 
To baud the wretch in order; 
But where ye feel your honour grip, 

Let that aye be your border. Bue>~s, Ep. to a Young Friend. 

Fear — There is no fear in love ; but perfect love casteth out fear. 

1 John iv. is. 

Fearfully — For I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 

Psalm cxxxix. 14. 
Fears — When our actions do not, 

Our fears do make us traitors. Shaks. Macbeth, act iv. sc. 2. 

Fears — Our very hopes belied our fears, 
Our fears our hopes belied ; 
TTe thought her dying while she slept, 

And sleeping when she died. Hood, The Death-bed. 

Feast — They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen 
the scraps. Shaks. Love's Labour s Lost, act v. sc. 1. 

Feast — The tables they groaned with the weight of the feast, 
Nor yet had the laughter and merriment ceased 
When the bell of the castle tolled — " One ! n 
M. G. Lewis, Tales of Wonder, " Alonzo the Brave," st. :. 

Feasting — A feasting presence full of light. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act v. sc. 3. 



FEA THER—FE W. 149 

Feather — A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod; 
An honest man's the noblest work of God. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. 247. 

Feather — To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night i. 1. 154. 

Feeble — Let that suffice, most forcible Feeble. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part ii. act iii. sc. 2. 

Feelings — Great thoughts, great feelings, came to them, 

Like instincts, unawares. R. M. Milnes, The Men of Old, 

Feels — The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! 
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. i. 1. 217, 

Feet — Her feet beneath her petticoat 
Like little mice stole in and out, 

As if they feared the light; 
But oh ! she dances such a way, 
Xo sun upon an Easter day 
Is half so fine a sight. 

Sir J. Suckling, Ballad on a Wedding. 

Fellow-feeling — Their cause I plead, — plead it in heart and mind : 
A fellow-feeling makes one icondrous kind. 

Garrick, Prologue on Quitting the Stage, June, 1776. 

Fellow — Alas, poor Yorick ! I knew him, Horatio ; & fellow of in- 
finite jest, of most excellent fancy. Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. 1. 

Fellow — A felloiv that hath had losses ; and one that hath two 
gowns, and everything handsome about him. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act iv. sc. 2. 

Fellow — If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the 
best king of good fellows. Shaks. K. Henry V, act v. sc. 2. 

Ferdinand — Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou 
liar of the first magnitude. 

Concrete, Love for Love, act ii. sc. 1. 

Few — For many are called, but few are chosen. Matt, xxii. 14. 

Few — Virtuous and vicious every man must be, 
Few in th' extreme, but all in the degree. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. ii. 1. 231. 

Few — Look round the habitable world, how few 
Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue ! 

Dryden, Trans, of JuvenaV s Tenth Satire. 



150 FICTION— FIRE. 

Fiction — 'Tis strange, but true ; for truth is always strange, — 
Stranger than fiction. Byron, Don Juan, can. xiv. st. 101. 

Fie — Fie, f oh, andfum, 

I smell the blood of a British man. 

Shaks. King Lear, act iii. sc. 4. 

Field — Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow ; they toil 
not, neither do they spin. Matt. vi. 28. 

Fife — Vile squeaking of the wry-necked fife. 

Shaks. Merchant of Venice, act ii, sc. 5. 

" Fights — For he who fights and runs away 
May live to fight another day; 
But he who is in battle slain 
Can never rise and fight again.* 

From the Art of Poetry on a New Plan, 
Edited by Oliver Goldsmith. -j- 
Figure — But, alas ! to make me 

The fixed figure for the time, for scorn 
To point his slow and moving finger at. 

Shaks. Othello, act iv. sc. 2. 
Filthy — Not greedy 01 filthy lucre. 1 Tim. iii. 3. 

Final — The ethereal mould, 

Incapable of stain, would soon expel 
Her mischief, and purge off- the baser fire, 
Victorious. . Thus repulsed, our final hope 
Is flat despair. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. 139. 

Fine — Fine by defect, and delicately weak. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. ii. 1. 43. 

Fine — Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds. 

Btckerstaff, Padlock, act i. sc. 1. 

Fine — For that,/me Madness still he did retain \ 
Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. 

Drayton, Polyolbion {of Marlowe). 

Fire — Three removes are as bad as afire. 

B. Franklin,. Poor Richard. 

* The following would appear to be the origin of this disputed quotation : — 

That same man that rennith awaie 

Maie again fight another daie. 

Erasmus, Apophthegms, translated by Udall, 1542. 
t See also pages 153 and 176. 
I Great wits are sure to madness near allied.— Dryden. 



FIRE— FLATTERERS. 151 

Fire — Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth ! 

James iii. 5. 

Fire — The glowworm shows the matin to be near, 
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire . 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc 5. 

Fire — While I was musing, the fire burned. Psalm xxxix. 3. 

Fires — On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow, 
His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below. 

Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, pt. i. 1. 3S5. 

Firmament — The spacious firmament on high, 
With all the blue ethereal sky, 
And spangled heavens, a shining frame, 
Their great Original proclaim. Addison, A Letter from Italy. 

Firmament — This brave 0' er hanging firmament, this majestical roof 
fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me 
than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act ii. sc. 4. 
Fit — The fit's upon me now, 
The fit's upon me now ! 
Come quickly, gentle lady : 
The fit's upon me now ! 

Beaumont and Fletcher, Wit without Money, act v. sc. 5. 

Fits — 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. 

Collins, The Passions, 1. 28. 

Fixd — Fixd like a plant on his peculiar spot, 
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. ii. 1. 63. 

Flame — He's gone; and who knows how he may report 
Thy words, by adding fuel to the flame? 

Milton, Samson Agonistes, 1. 1350. 

Flanders — Under the tropic is our language spoke, 
And part of Flanders hath received our yoke. 

"Waller, Upon the Death of the Lord Protector. 

Flashes — Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? 
your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a 
roar. Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. 1. 

Flatterers — But, when I tell him he hates flatterers, 
He says he does ; being then most flattered. 

Shaks. Julius Casar, act ii. sc. 1. 



152 FLA TTERERS— FLING. 



Flatterers — By flatterers I 

And so obliging that he ne'er obliged ; 
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, 
And sit attentive to his own applause. 

Pope, Ep. to Dr. Arbuthnot, 1. 207. 

Flattering — Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4. 
Flattery — Xe'er 

Was flattery lost on poet's ear ; 
A simple race ! they waste their toil 
For the vain tribute of a smile. 

Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel, can. iv. st. .35. 

Fleas — Fleas are not lobsters, d — their souls ! Wolcott. 

Fleeting — Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view. 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, 1. 26. 
Flesh — All flesh is grass. Isaiah xl. 6. 

Flesh — The blood will follow where the knife is driven ; 
The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear, 
And sighs and cries by nature grow on pain. 

Young, Revenge, act v. sc. 3. 
Flesh — Bone and Skin, two millers thin, 
Would starve us all, or near it ; 
But be it known to Skin and Bone 
That Flesh and Blood can't bear it. 

J. Byrom, Epigram on Two Monopolists. 
Flesh — flesh, flesh, how art thou fish i fie d .' 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 4. 

Flesh — Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation : the 
spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Matt. xxvi. 41. 

Flies — Like summer friends, 

Flies of estates and summershine. G. Herbert, The Answer. 

Flight — The never-ending flight 

Of future days. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. 221. 

Fling — To cure the mind's wrong bias, spleen, 
Some recommend the Bowling Green, 
Some hilly walks, — all exercise ; 
Fling but a stone, the giant dies. M. Green, The Spleen, 1. 90. 

Fling — Weariness 

Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth 

Finds the down pillow hard. Shaks. Cymbeline, act iii. sc. 6. 



FL O WER—FOLL Y. 153 

Flower — Catch, then, catch the transient hour ; 
Improve each moment as it flies ! 
Life's a short summer, — man a flower i 
He dies — alas ! how soon he dies ! 

Johnson, Winter, an Ode. 

Flowing — When flowing cups run swiftly round, 

With no allaying Thames. E. Lovelace, To Althea,from Prison. 

Flunkey — A great man's overfed great man, what the Scotch call 
Flunkey. Carlyle, Essay on Johnson. 

Fly—Fly not yet: 'tis just the hour 

When pleasure, like the midnight flower 
That scorns the eye of vulgar light, 
Begins to bloom for sons of night, 

And maids who love the moon. Moore, Fly not yet. 

Fly — For those that fly may fight again, 
Which he can never do that's slain.* 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. iii. can. iii. 1. 243. 

Foe — For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove 
An unrelenting foe to love, 
And when we meet a mutual heart, 
Come in between and bid us part ? 

Thomson, Song, " For ever, Fortune." 

Foernen — And the stern joy which warriors feel 
Infoemen worthy of their steel. 

Scott, The Lady of the Lake, can. v. st. 10. 

Folly — Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, 
And catch the manners living as they rise ; 
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, 
But vindicate the ways of God to man. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. i. 1. 13. 

Folly — The picture, placed the busts between, 
Adds to the thought much strength ; 
Wisdom and Wit are little seen, 
But Folly's at full length. 

J. Breretox, On Beau Nash! s Picture at full length, between 
the Busts of Sir I. Newton andMr. Pope, ascribed to Lord 
Chesterfield. 

* See pages 150 and 176. 



154 FOLLY— FOOLS. 

F0U11 — Where lives the man that has not tried 
How miith can into folly glide. 
And. folly into sin ? Scott. The Bridal ofTriermain, can. i. st. 21. 

Folly — Since sorrow never comes too late, 
And happiness too swiftly flies, 
Where ignorance is bliss. 
'Tis folly to be wise. 

Gray, On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. 

Folly — When lovely woman stoops to foil 'y, 
And finds too late that men betray. 
What charm can soothe her melancholy ? 
What art can wash her guilt away ? 

GroitDSMrra, Vicar of Wake- field, ch. xvii. 

Fontarabian — for a blast of that dread horn 

On Fontarabian echoes borne ! Scott. Marmion, can. vi. st. 23. 

Food — Food for powdtr. food for powder: they'll fill a pit as well 

as better. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act iv. sc. 2. 

Food — And homeless near a thousand homes I stood. 
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food. 

Wordsworth, Guilt and Sorrow, st. a. 

Fool — At thirty, man suspects himself a fool ; 
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan. 

YousGj Night Thoughts, night i. L 97. 

Fool — For every inch that is not fool is rogue. 

Dbyden, Absalom and Achitephd. pt. ii. L 163. 

Fool — The fool hath said in his heart, There is no Grod. 

Psalm xiv. 1. 

Fool — A fool must now and then be right, by chance. 

Cowpek, Conversation. 

Fool — The solemn fop, significant and budge ; 

A. fool with judges, among fools a judge. Ibid. 

Fools — For fools admire, but men of sense approve. 

Pope, Fssay on Criticism, pt. ii. 1. i;i. 

Fools — Quoth she. I've heard old cunning stagers 
Say, fools for arguments use wagers. 

Butler. Hudibras, pt. ii. can. i. 1. 297. 

Fools — In idle wishes fools supinely stay; 
Be there a will, — and wisdom finds a way. 

Craebe, The Birth of Flattery. 



FOOLS— FOOT. 155 

Fools — Fools make a mock at sin. Prov. xiv. 9. 

Fools — For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. iii. 1. 66. 

Fools — " Fools that do not know how much more the half is than 
the whole." * 

Fools — Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them. 

, Franklin, Poor Richard. 

Fools — If solid happiness we prize, 
Within our breast this jewel lies ; 

And they are fools who roam : 
The world has nothing to bestow ; 
From our own selves our joys must flow, 

And that dear hut, — our home. X. Cotton, The Fireside, st. s. 

Fools — Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, 
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. 

Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 1. 179. 

Fools — Since called 

The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iii. 1. 495. 

Fools 1 Paradise — This is call'd Fools' Paradise, 
From the loving fools that dwell in't; 
Where the great fools rule the less, 
The rest obey, and all do well in 't. 

Quevedo, Visions, Eng. Trans, by R. L. 
{Roger L Estrange), 1671, vision iv. 

Foot — His very foot has music in 't 

As he comes up the stairs. Mickle, The Mariner's Wife. 

Foot — Afoot more light, a step more true, 
^se'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew. 

Scott, The Lady of the Lake, can. i. st. is. 

Foot — Too late I stayed — forgive the crime — ■ 
Unheeded flew the hours ; 
How noiseless falls the foot of Time, 
That only treads on flowers ! 

Hon. TV. E. Spencer, Lines to Lady A. Hamilton. 

Foot — The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time. 

Shaks. All's Well that Ends Well, act v. sc. 3. 



' Hesiod, Works and Days, v. 40. 



156 FOOTPRINTS— FORTUNE. 

Footpri?its — Lives of great men all remind us 
We can make our lives sublime, 
And, departing, leave behind us 
Footprints on the sands of time. 

Longfellow, A Psalm of Life. 

Forbear — Forbear to judge ; for we are sinners all. 

Shaks. K. Henry VI, part ii. act iii. sc. 3. 

Forbearance — There is, however, a limit at which forbearance 
ceases to be a virtue. Burke, The Present State of the Nation, 

Force — Who overcomes 

By force hath overcome but half his foe. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 64«. 

Fordoes — This is the night 

That either makes me or fordoes me quite. 

Shaks. Othello, act v. sc. i. 

Forefinger — Jewels five-words-long, 

That on the stretched forefinger of all tune 
Sparkle for ever. Tennyson, The Princess, can. ii. 

Forehead — With forehead villainous low. 

Shaks. Tempest, act iv. sc. i. 

Foremost — The foremost man of all this world. 

Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act iv. sc. 3. 

Forgetfulness — O sleep, gentle sleep, 

Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, 
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, 
And steep my senses in forgetfulness'? 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part ii. act iii. sc. l. 

Forgiveness — Forgiveness to the injured does belong ; * 
But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. 

Dryden, Conquest of Grenada, pt. ii. act i. sc. 2, 

Forked — Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring ; when 
he was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, 
with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part ii. act iii. sc. 2. 

Fortune — To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune ; but to 
write and read comes by nature. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act iii. sc. s. 

* Tacitus says, " Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris." Herbert, 
in his Jacula Prudentum^ has, " The offender never pardons." 



FOB TUNE— FRANCE. 157 

Fortune — Afer, with thousands, after wealth will run. 
To many Fortune gives too much, enough to none. 

Martial, lib. xii. ep. 10. 

Fortune — There is a tide in the affairs of men 
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; 
Omitted, all the voyage of their life 
Is bound in shallows and in miseries. 

Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act iv. sc. 3. 

Fortune — When Fortune means to men most good, 
She looks upon them with a threatening eye. 

Shaks. K. John, act iii. sc. 4. 

Fortune — And railed on lady Fortune in good terms, 

In good set terms. Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7. 

Fortune's buffets — A man, that fortune' 's buffets and rewards 
Hast ta'en with equal thanks. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Fortunes — My pride fell with my fortunes. 

Shaks. .4s You Like It, act i. sc. 2. 

Forty -parson — Oh for a forty -parson power ! 

Byron, Don Juan, can. x. st. 34. 

Forty — A man he was to all the country dear, 
And passing rich with forty pounds a year. 

Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 1. 141. 

Fountain — An endless foun tain of immortal drink 

Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink. Keats, Endymion. 

Fountain — A woman moved is like & fountain troubled ; 
Muddy, ill- seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. 

Shaks. Taming of the Shrew, act v. sc. 2. 

Fowl — Tame villatic fowl. Milton, Samson Agonistes, 1. 1695. 

Foxes — The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests ; 
but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. Matt. viii. 20. 

Foxes — The little foxes, that spoil the vines. 

The Song of Solomon ii. 15. 

Fragments — Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be 
lost. John vi. 12. 

Frailty — Frailty, thy name is woman. Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. 

Framed — Framed to make women false. Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. 3. 

France — " They order" said I, " this matter better in France J 9 

Sterne, Sentimental Journey, p. 1. 



155 FREE—FRIEXD. 

Free — I am as free as nature first made man, 
Ere the base laws of servitude began, 

When wild in woods the noble savage ran. 

DkydeNj The Conquest of Grenada, pt. i, act i. so. i. 

Freedom — No. Freedom has a thou sand charms to show 

That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. 

Cowpee, Table Talk. 

Freedom — Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell, 
And Freedom shriek' d as Kosciusko JeL I 

Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, pt. i. 1. 381. 

Free-livers — Free-livers on a small seale, who are prodigal within 
the compass of a guinea. W. Irving, The Stout Gentleman. 

Freeman — He is the freeman whom the truth makes ■ 

Cowpeb, The Task, bk. v. Winter Morning Walk. 

Frenchman — Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true : 
A truth the brilliant French-man never knew. Cowpeb, Truth. 

Frenchman's darling — The Frenchman's darling. 

Cowpee, The Task. bk. iv. Winter Evening. ■ 

Fresh — To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new. 

Mutton, Lycidas, 1. isb. 

Friend — Fru ts 3 — 

Who hath not lost a friend? 
There is no union here of hearts 

That finds not here an end. Montgomery, Friends. 

Friend — I've often wished that I had clear. 
For life, six hundred pounds a-year, 
A handsome ho a friend. 

A river at my garden's end. 

Swift. Imitation of Horace, bk. ii. sat. :. 

: — A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly : and 
there is ay< a brother. 

Prov. xviii. u. 

— Give me th* avowM, th' erect, the manly foe, 
Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow; 
But. of all plagues, _■: :d Heaven, thy wrath can send, 
Save. save, oh, save me from the candid friend ! 

Cannes" g, yew Morality, Anti-Jacobin, p. 232. 



FRIEND— FROG. 159 

Friend — She that asks 

Her dear Jive hundred friends. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. ii. The Timepiece. 

Friend's infirmities — A friend should bear his friend's infirmities ; 
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. 

Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act iv. sc. s. 

Friends — As round our isle the azure billow roars, 
From all the world dividing Britain's shores, 
Within itself be Britain's natures joined, 
A world themselves, yet friends of human-kind. 

H. Pye, Alfred, bk. vi. 1. 99. 

Friends— I would not enter on my list of friends 

(Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, 
Yet wanting sensibility) the man 
"Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. vi. Winter Walk at Noon. 

friends — Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! 
_ Hath he not always treasures, always friends, 

The good great man ? Three treasures, love and light 

Ancl calm thoughts,, regular as infants' breath ; 

And three firm friends, more sure than day or night, 

Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death. Coleridge, Reproof 

Friendship — And what is friendship but a name, 
A charm that lulls to sleep, 
A shade that follows wealth or fame, 
And leaves the wretch to weep ? 

Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield, ch. viii. The Hermit. 

Friendship — Friendship ! mysterious cement of the soul I 
Sweet' ner of life ! and solder of society. 

Blair, The Grave, 1. 88. 

Friendship — "Who ne'er knew joy hut friendship might divide, 
Or gave his father grief but when he died. 

Pope, Fp. on the Hon. S. Har court. 

Frog — Thus use your frog : put your hook, I mean the arming 
wire, through his mouth, and out at his gills, and then with a fine 
needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg with only one 
stitch to the arming wire of your hook, or tie the frog's leg- 
above the upper joint to the armed wire; and in so doing use 
him as though you loved him. 

Walton, The Complete Angler, pt. i. ch. 5. 



160 FRONT— FUBY. 

Front — Now's the day, and now's the hour : 

See the ^ron^ o' battle low'r. Burns, Bannockburn. 

Frown — To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night viii. 1. 1054. 

Fruit — The tree is known by his fruit. Matt, xii. 33. 

Fruit — Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, 
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. ii. 1. 109. 

Fruit — Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit 
Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste 
Brought death into the world and all our woe. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 1. 

Fruit — The ripest fruit first falls. 

Shaks. K. Richard II, act ii. sc. 1. 

Full — Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join 
The varying verse, the full resounding line, 
The long majestic march, and energy divine. 

Pope, Imitations of Horace, bk. ii. ep. i. 1. 266. 

Fun — As Tammie gloured, amazed and curious, 
The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. 

Burns, Tarn O'Shanter. 

Funeral — Thrift, thrift, Horatio ! the funeral baked meats 
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. 

Funning — Cease your funning, 
Force or cunning 
Never shall my heart trepan. Gay, Beggars Opera, act ii. sc. 2. 

Fury — Filled with fury, rapt, inspired. 

Collins, The Passions, 1. 10. 

lury — Beware the fury of a patient man. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, pt. i. 1. 1005. 



GAE— GARISH. 




AE — Seem to forsake her, soon she'll change her 
mood : 

Gae woo anicher. an' she'll gang- clean wud. 

Kamsay, Gentle Shepherd. 

Gain — For to me to live is Christ, and to die is 
gain. Philip, i. 21. 

Gaffleo — The starry Galileo with his woes. 

Byron, CloJ.de Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. 51. 

Gall — Let there he god enough in thy ink; though thou write Tvith 
a goose-pen. no matter. Shaks. Twelfth Xight, act iii. se. 2. 

Galled — Let the galled jade wince, our withers are im wrung. 

Shaks. Hamlet,. act iii. sc. 2. 

Gallery — He grinds divinity of other days 
Down into modern use; transforms old print 
To zig-zag manuscript, and cheats the eyes 
Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. 

Cowpee, The Task, bk. ii. The Timepiece. 

Galligaskins — My galligaskins, that have long withstood 

The winter's fury and encroaching frosts, • 

By time subdued (what will not time subdue ?), 

A horrid chasm disclosed. Phillips, The Splendid Shilling, 1. ia. 
Gardens — "Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. 

Cowpee, The Task, bk. iii. The Garden. 
Garish — When he shall die. 

Take him and cut him out in little stars. 

And he will make the face of heaven so fine 

That all the world will he in love with night 

And pay no worship to the garish sun. 

Shaks. Borneo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 2. 



162 GAEL AND— GENTLEMAN. 

Garland — A poet soaring in the high region of his fancies, with 
his garland and singing robes about him. 

Milton, Reason of Church Government, bk. ii. 
Garter — Mine host of the Garter. 

Shaks. Merry Wives of Windsor, act i. sc. 1. 

Gather — Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, 
Old Time is still a-flying, 
And this same flower, that smiles to-day, 
To-morrow will be dying. 

Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time. 

Gathered — Led by my hand, he sauntered Europe round, 
And gathered every vice on Christian ground. 

Pope, The Dunciad, bk. iv. 1. 311. 

Gay Lothario — Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario ? 

N. Rowe, The Fair Penitent, act v. sc. 1. 
Gazelle — I never nursed a dear gazelle, 
To glad me with its soft black eye, 
But, when it came to know me well, 
And love me, it was sure to die. 

Moore, The Fire- Worshippers. 

Gazette — They have not done me justice; but I'll have a gazette of 
my own. Kelson, Southey's Life. 

Genius — When all of genius which can perish dies. 

Byron, Monody on the Death of Sheridan. 

Gentle — He knew whose gentle hand was at the latch 
Before the door had given her to his eyes. Keats, Isabella. 

Gentle — Gentle thoughts, when they may give the foil, 
Save them that yield, and spare where they may spoil. 

T. Heywood, A Woman Kilde with Kindnesse, prologue. 

Gentleman — His locked, lettered, braw brass collar 
Showed him the gentleman and scholar. Burns, The Twa Dogs. 

Gentleman — The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman. 

Shaks. K. Lear, act iii. sc. 4. 

Gentleman — A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.* 

J. C. Hare, Guesses at Truth. 
Gentleman — An honest man is the gentleman of nature. 

Bulwer Lytton, Lady of Lyons, act ii. 

* Dryden says, " God Almighty's gentlemen," in Absalom and AchitopheL 
See also, for term " gentleman," quotation from Tennyson, p. 169. 



GENTL EM EX— GIN. 163 

Gentlemen — The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. 

Pope, Imitations of Horace, bk. ii. ep. i. 1. ios. 

Gently — Then genth/ scan your brother man, 
Still gentler, sister woman : 
Though they may gang a' kennin' wrang, 

To step aside is human. Burns, Address to the Unco 9 Quid. 

George — And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter; 
For new-made honour doth forget men's names. 

Shaks. K. John, act i. sc. 1. 
Get — Get money; still get money, boy; 
Xo matter by what means. 

Joxsox, Every Man in His Humour, act ii. sc. 3. 

Get — Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; 
If not, by any means get wealth and place.* 

Pope, Horace, ep. i. bk. i. 
Get — Get thee behind me, Satan. Matt. xvi. 2.3. 

Ghost — There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave 
To tell us this. Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 5. 

Ghost — J'ex not his ghost : 0, let him pass ! he hates him 
That would upon the rack of this rough world 
Stretch him out longer. Shaks. King Lear, act v. sc. s. 

Giant's strength — 0, it is excellent 

To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous 

To use it like a giant. Shaks. Measure for Measure, act ii. sc. 2. 

Gift-horse — Look a gift-horse in the mouth. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. i. can. i. 1. 490. Eabelais, bk. i. ch. 2. 
Also quoted by St. Jerome. 

Gilded — Are then regalities all gilded masks f Keats, Endymion. 

Gilpin — Xow let us sing, long live the Xing, 
And Gilpin long live he; 
And when he next doth ride abroad, 

May I be there to see ! Cowper, History of John Gilpin. 

Gin — Tax Chancellor Van, the Batavian to thwart, 
This compound of crime at a sovereign a quart ; 
Let gin fetch per bottle the price of champagne, 
And hew down the ITpas in Marylebone Lane. 

James Smith, The Upas. 

* Rem facias ; rem, 

Si possis, recte ; si non, qnocunque modo rem. Horace, Ep. bk. 1. i. 65, 66. 



164 GIVE— GLORY. 

Give — Give it an understanding, but no tongue. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. 

Give — Give me but what this ribbon bound, 
Take all the rest the sun goes round. Waller, On a Girdle. 

Give — Give me neither poverty nor riches. Prov. xxx. 8. 

Give — Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak 
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act iv. sc. 3. 

Give — Give thy thoughts no tongue. Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 3. 

Glare — Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, 
And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. i. st. 9. 

Glass — For now we see through a glass, darkly. 1 Cor. xiii.<i2. 

Glass — He was, indeed, the glass 

Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part ii. act ii. sc. 3. 

Gloomy — I like this rocking of the battlements. 
Eage on, ye winds ! burst, clouds, and waters, roar ! 
You bear a just resemblance to my fortunes, 
And suit the gloomy habit of my soul. 

Young, The Revenge, act i..sc. 1. 

Glories — Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, 
But, seen too near, give neither heat nor light. 

Webster, Duchess of Malfy, act v. sc.'i. 

Glory — The glory dies not, and the grief is past. 

Sir S. E. Brydges, Sonnet on the Death of Sir W. Scott. 

Glory — In working well if travail you sustain, 
Into the mind shall light pass the pain, 
But of the deed the glory shall remain. A. Grtmwald, Poems. 

Glory — The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 

Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard. 

Glory — Who track the steps of glory to the grave. 

Byron, Monody on the Death of Sheridan, 1. 74. 

Glory — But trailing clouds of glory do we come 
From God, who is our home : 
Heaven lies about us in our infancy ! 

Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality, st. 5. 



GLORY— GOD. 165 

Glory — Go where glory waits thee. 

Moore, Go where glory waits thee. 

Go — Go, soul, the bodys guest, 
Upon a thankless errand ! 
Fear not to touch the best : 

The truth shall be thy -warrant ; 
Go, since I needs must die, 
And give the world the lie. 

J . Sylvester, The Soul's Errand. 

Go — Go, and do thou likewise. Luke x. 37. 

Go — I'll go his halves. Rabelais, bk. iv. c. 23. 

God — God made the country, and man made the town.* 

Cowper, The Task. 
God — A God all mercy is a God unjust. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night iv. 1. 233. 

God — His tribe were God Almighty 's gentlemen . 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, pt. i. 1. 645. 

God — God helps them that help themselves. 

B. Franklin, Poor Richard. 
God — Just are the ways of God, 

: And j ustifiable to men. Milton, Samson Agonistes, 1. 293. 

God — God moves in a mysterious way 
His wonders to perform : 
He plants His footsteps in the sea, 
And rides upon the storm. 

Cowper, Light Shining out of Darkness. 

God — God save our gracious king ! 
Long live our noble king ! 
God save the king ! Dr. John Bull, God save the King.f 

* Nee mirum, quod divina Natura dedit agros, ars humana aedifieavit 
urbes. — Varro. Cowper's is a wonderfully close translation, but it is quite pos- 
sible that be bad not seen the original. — See p. 69, " Cam." 

t Dr. John Bull (1591) was the composer only. Henry Carey's son claimed 
it as the composition of his father, whose granddaughter, Alice Carey, was 
the mother of Edmund Kean. Carey died in 1743. The germ of this song is 
to be found in one which Sir Peter Carew used to sing before Henry VIII ; it 
runs : — 

" And I said, Good Lord, defend 
England with Thy most holy hand, 
And save noble Henry our king." 

This effectually dissipates Carey's claim to hare originated the National 
Anthem. See also quotation on next page from Shaks. Richard II, " No 
man cried God save him,''' p. 166. 



166 GOD^-GOLDEN. 

God — The god of my idolatry. Shaks. Horn, and Jul. act ii. sc. 2. 

God — So over-violent, or over-civil, 

That every man with him was God or devil. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, pt. i. 1. 557. 

God — Life's but a means unto an end — that end, 
Beginning, mean, and end to all things — God. 

Bailey, Festus, pp. 37, 38. 
God — Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Matt. vi. 24. 

God — Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes 
Did scowl on Eichard; no man cried God save him ! 

Shaks. Eichard II, act v. sc. 2.. 

God — God sendeth and giveth the mouth and the meat.* 

Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. 

God — God tempers the wind to the shorn lamh.f 

Sterne, Sentimental Journey, Paris. 

God-given — Profaned the God-given strength, and marred the 
lofty line. Scott, Marmion, introd. to can. i. 

God' s prophets — God' 's prophets of the beautiful 
These poets were. E. B. Browning, A Vision. 

God '«? providence — Even God 9 s providence 
Seeming estranged. Hood, The Bridge of Sighs. 

Gods — Then he will talk — good gods, how he will talk ! 

]Sat. Lee, Alexander the Great, act i. sc. 3. 

Gold — Fire-branded foxes to sear up and singe 
Our gold and ripe-ear 9 d hopes. Keats, Endymion. 

Gold — Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem. 

Spenser, Faerie Queene, bk. ii. can. viii. st. 14. 

Gold — All, as they say, that glitters is not gold. 

Dryden, Hind and Panther. 
Gold— Goldl gold! gold! gold! 
Bright and yellow, hard and cold. Hood, Miss Kilmansegg. 

Golden — I have bought 

Golden opinions from all sorts of people. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 7. 



* Where God sends babbies, He sends penny loaves. 

Modern London Proverb. 
t George Herbert has, in his Jacula Prudent urn, " To a close-shorn sheep 
God gives wind to measure." 



GOLDEN— GOOD. 167 

Golden — Happy the golden mean. 

Massixger, The Great Duke of Florence. 

Golden — His golden locks time hath to silver turned ; 
time too swift ! swiftness never ceasing ! 
His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned, 
But spurned in vaine ; youth waneth by encreasing. 

George Peele, Polyhymnia. 

Good — She was good as she was fair, 
Xone, none on earth above her ! 
As pure in thought as angels are : 

To know her was to love her.* S. Kogers, Jacqueline, st. l. 

Good — The good are better made by ill, 
As odours crushed are sweeter still. Hid. st. 3. 

Good — And learn the luxury of doing good.j- 

Goldsmith, Traveller, 1. 22. 

Good — The book is made (as all books are) 
Which I to you have sent : 
Some good it hath, perchance much bad, 
And more indifferent. 

Martial, ep. xvii. 1. 1. In Extenuation of his Book. 

Good — Yes ! you will find people ready enough to do the good 
Samaritan icithout the oil and the twopence. % 

Sydney Smith, W. W. p. 329. 

Good — A good name is better than precious ointment. Eccles. vii. 1. 

Good — Good night and joy be icV ye a! ; 

Tour harmless mirth has charmed my heart ; 
May life's fell blasts out owre ye blaw, 

In sorrow may ye never part. Sir Alex. Boswell. 

Good — In a good old age. Gen. xv. 15. 

Good — There's a good time coming, boys, 
Wait a little longer ! § Chas. Mackay, Songs. 



* To see her is to love her, 
And love but her for ever. Burns, 'Bonnie Lesley. 

+ For all their luxury was doing good. Garth, Claremont, 1 148. 

He tried the luxury of doing good. Crabbe, Tales of the Hall, bk. iii. 
I This was appropriated by Douglas Jerrold. 
§ See p. 173, " Gude." 



16S GOOD— GOBY. 

Good — Because the good old rule 
Sufficeth them, the simple plan, 
That they should take who have the power, 
And thev should keep who can. 

"Wordsworth, Bob Boy's Grave, st. 9. 
Good — Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, 
And, though no science, fairly worth the seven. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. iv. 1. 43. 
Good — Lovely Thais sits beside thee : 

Take the good the gods provide thee. Drydex, Alex. Feast, 1. 103. 

Good — Good, the more 

Communicated, more abundant grows.* 

Miltox, Paradise Lost, bk. v. 1. 71. 

Good — Are you good men and true ? 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act iii. sc. 3. 

Good — Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, 
Is the immediate jewel of their souls. 

Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; 
But he that filches from me my good name 
Eobs me of that which not enriches him, 
And makes me poor indeed. Shaks. Othello, act iii. sc. 3. 

Good — X ought so vile that on the earth doth live 
But to the earth some special good doth give. 

Shaks. Borneo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 3. 

Goodly — Oh, Christ ! it is a goodly sight to see 
What Heaven hath done for this delicious land. 

BvRoy, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. i. st. 15. 

Goodness — There is some soul of goodness in things evil. 
Would men observingly distil it out. 

Shaks. King Henry V, act iv. sc. 1. 

Goodness — If goodness lead him not, yet weariness 
May toss him to my breast. Herbert, The Pulley. 

Goodness — Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful . 

Shaks. Measure for Measure, act iii. sc. 1. 

Gory — Thou can'st not say I did it; never shake 
Thy gory locks at me. Shaks. Macbeth, act iii. sc. 4. 



* That sood diffused may more abundant crow. Coy.'PER. Conversation. 



GOSPEL— GRAVE. 169 

Gospel — "And gospel light first beamed from Sullen s eyes'* 

Gray, Long Story. 

Government — All government, indeed every human benefit and en- 
joyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on com- 
promise and barter. 

Burke, Speech on Conciliation with America. 

Grace — Oh ! could you view the melody 

Of every grace, 

x\nd music of her face,* 
You'd drop a tear ; 

Seeing more harmony 
In her bright eye 

Than now you hear. Lovelace, Orpheus on Death of his Wife. 

Grace — "Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame, 
The power of grace, the magic of a name ? 

Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, pt. ii. 1. 5. 

Grand — The grand old name of gentleman, 
Defamed by every charlatan, 
And soiled with all ignoble use. Texxysox, In Memoriam, can. x. 

Grandam — Clown. What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning 
wild -fowl? 

Male olio. That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit 
a bird. 

Clo. What thinkest thou of his opinion ? 

Mai. I think nobly of the soul, and no way approve his 
opinion. Shaks. Twelfth Night, act iv. sc. 2. 

Grandsire — For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 4. 

Grapes — The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's 
teeth are set on edge. Ezek. xviii. :\ 

Gratitude — The still small voice of gratitude. 

(tray, Ode to Music, 1. ei. 

Grave — The grave, dread thing ! 

Men shiver when thou'rt named : Xature, appalled, 
Shakes off her wonted firmness. Blair, The Grave, 1. 9. 

Grave — Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay. 

Sir W. Kaleigh, Verses to Edmund Spens r. 



The mind, the music breathing from her face. 

Bi'B.ox, Bride of Abijdos, st. 6. 



170 GRAVE— GRAY. 

Grave — Thou art gone to the grave! but we will not deplore thee, 
Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb. 

Heber, At a Funeral. 

Grave — Formed by thy converse happily to steer 
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.* 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. 379. 

Grave — Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! 
grave I where is thy victory f 
death ! where is thy sting ? 

Pope, The Dying Christian to his Soul. 

Grave — Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. 

Gen. xlii. 38. 

Grave — Ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. 
Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 1. 

Grave — Here TThitefoord reclines, and deny it who can, 
Though he merrily lived, he is now a grave man. 

Goldsmith, Retaliation, postscript. 

Grave — She lived unknown, and few could know 
When Lucy ceased to be; 
But she is in her grave, and oh ! 

The difference to me ! Wordsworth, Lucy. 

Graves — In the most high and palmy state of Kome, 
A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, 
The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead 
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. 

Shahs. Hamlet, act i. sc. 1. 

Gray — The gray mare will be the better horse. 

The Marriage of True Wit and Science. 
Butler, Hudihras, pt. ii. can. ii. 1. 696. 

Gray — Oh ! why dost thou shiver and shake, 
Gaffer Gray ? 
And why does thy nose look so blue ? 

Thomas Holcroft, Gaffer Gray. 



* Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere 
Passer du grave aii doux, du plaisant au severe 

Boileau, L'Art Poetique, chant ler. 
Happy who in his verse can gently steer 
From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. 

Drydex, Art of Poetry, 1. 75. 
Dryden altered this from Sir Wm. Soame's translation. 



GREAT— GREEN. 171 

Great — None think the great unhappy but the great * 

Young, Love of Fame, sat. i. 1. 23s. 

Great — Great is truth and mighty above all things, Esdra iv. 51. 

Great — Some are bom great, some achieve greatness, and some 
have greatness thrust upon 'em. 

Shaks. Twelfth Night, act ii. sc. 5. 

Great — Hence, ye profane, I hate ye all, 
Both the great vulgar and the small. 

Cowley, Horace, bk. iii. ode 1. 

Great — Great icits jump. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vol. iii. ch. 9. 

Greatest — It is the greatest good to the greatest number which is 
the measure of right or wrong. BEXTHAM.f 

Greece — The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! 
Where burning Sappho loved and sung. 

Byron, Don Juan, can. iii. st. lxxxvi. v. 1. 

Greek — Small Latin and less Greek. 

Jonson, To the Memory of Shakespeare. 

Greek — But, for mine own part, it was Greek to me. 

Shaks. Julius Casar, act i. sc. 2. 

Greeks — When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war. 

Nat. Lee, Alexander the G?-eat, act iv. sc. 2. 

Green — And 'tis for this we think and toil, and knowledge strive 
to glean, 
That we may pull the English red below the Irish green, 
And leave our sons sweet liberty, sweet smiling plenty spread, 
Above the land once dark with blood — the green above the red! 
Tom Dayis, Songs of the Nation Newspaper. 

Green — Green be the turf above thee, 
Friend of my better days : 
Xone knew thee but to love thee, 
Nor named thee but to praise. 

Halleck, On the Death of J. R. Drake. 



* As if misfortune made the throne her seat, 
And none could be unhappy but the great. 

Howe, The Fair Penitent, prologue. 
t It is probable that Dr. Priestly -svas the originator of the phrase "the 
greatest happiness of the greatest number." 



172 GREEN— GR O WS. 

Green — Spreading himself like a green bay tree. Psalm xxxvii. 35. 

Green — He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : he leadeth 
me beside the still waters. Psalm xxiii. 2. 

Green-robed — Those green-robed senators of might n ivoods, 
Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars. Keats, Hyperion . 

Greetings — Xor greetings where no kindness is. 

Wordsworth, Tintem Abbey. 

Greyhounds — I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, 
Straining upon the start. Shaks. K. Henry V, act iii. sc. 1. 

Grief — Xo greater grief than to remember days 
Of joy when misery is at hand. Gary, Dante, can. v. 1. 128. 

Grief- — Every one can master a grief but he that has it. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act iii. sc. 2. 

Grief — In the first days 

Of my distracting grief I found myself 
As women wish to be who love their lords. 

J. Home, Douglas, act i. sc. 1. 

Griefs — Some griefs are med ' cinable. Shaks. Cymheline, actiii. sc. 2. 

Grim-visaged — Grim-visaged war\\&t\\ smoothed his wrinkled front. 
Shaks. K. Richard III, act i. sc. 1. 

Grind — Grind the faces of the poor. Isaiah iii. 1.3. 

Ground — Where'er we tread, 'tis haunted, holy ground. 

Byrox, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. ii. st. ->. 

Grounds — Matrons who toss the cup and see 
The grounds of fate in grounds of tea. 

Churchill, Ghost, bk. i. 1. 117. 

Groves — The groves were God's first temples. Bryaxt, Forest Hymn. 

Grow — May I govern my passion with absolute sway, 
And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away. 

Dr. W. Pope, The Old Man's Wish. 

Ground — " Do you know who made you?" 

" Xobody, as I knows on/' said the child, with a short laugh ; 
" I sped I grow 'd; don't think nobody never made me." 

Mrs. Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, chap. 20. 

Grows — The young disease, that must subdue at length, 
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. ii. 1. 155. 



GB rXD Y— G YPSIES. 173 

till Mrs. Gi 

T. MoktoHj Speed the Plough, act i. bc. :. 

Guards— Good humour and white bigonets shall be 
Guards to my fact, to keep his love for 

Ramsay, Gentle Shepherd. 

Gv.de — There's a gv.de time c<: Scour, Bob Boy, ch. e. 

Guest — For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best,, 
Welcome the coming, speed the coir..: guest. 

Pope, Horace, bk. ii. sat. ii. 1. 159. 

Guest — True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed, 

"Welcome the coming. 5;;-. -:h :".-: .rting guest. 

Pope, Odyssey, bk. xv. 1. 83. 

Guide — Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend. 

Popk, Essay on Mian, ep. it. 1. 390. 

G i \ea — But the jingling of the guinea u-aps tr.e /.:..?■: :het 1 
feels. Ths^ysou, Locksley Hall. 

: — Steal ! to be sure they may, and, egad, serve your best 
thoughts as ftoL children, disfigure them to make 

them pass for their iwn.* Sheridaw, The Critic, act i. sc. 1. 



Still p:^:t:"? wretched plans, ;.:::; "i^kr? : hem worse ; 
Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, 
Defacing first, then claiming for his own. 

Churchill, The Apology, 1. 233. 




HABIT— HAND. 




' ABIT — How use doth breed a habit in a man! 

Shaks. Two Gentlemen of Verona, act v. sc. 4. 

Hail — Hail to the chief who in triumph advances ! 

Scott, The Lady of the Lake, can. ii. st. 19. 

Hail — Hail, wedded Love! mysterious law, true 
source 
Of human offspring. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iv. 1. 750. 

Hair — He could distinguish, and divide, 
A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. 

Butler, Hudibras, part i. can. i. 1. 67. 

Hairs — But the very hairs of your head are cdl numbered. 

Matt. x. 30. 

Half— Half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. i. 1. 40. 

Half— V to. half seas o f er in death. Dkyden, Cleomenes. 

Half-drunk — Where the half-drunk lean over the half-dressed. 

Alfred Austin, The Season. 

Halter — No man e'er felt the halter draw 
With good opinion of the law. 

T. Trumbull, McFingal, can. iii. 1. 489. 

Hand — His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand 
against him. Gen. xvi. 12. 

Hand — I have taken the hand that others 
Have feared would their white skin soil, 
But I seldom had cause to tremble 

For the hand that was hardened with toil. 

J. E. Carpenter, Songs. 



HAND— HATE. 175 

Hand — Whatsoever thy hand find eth to do, do it with thy might. 

Eccles. ix. 10. 

Hands — Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the 
hands to sleep. Prov. vi. 10; xxiv. 33. 

Hands — Hands promiscuously applied 

Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side. 

Bye ox, The Waltz. 

Happiness — All who joy would win 

Must share it, — Happiness teas bom a twin. 

Byrox, Hon Juan, can. ii. st. 1:2. 

Happiness — And there is ev'n a happiness 

That makes the heart afraid. Hood, Ode to Melancholy . 

Happiness — How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through 
another man's eyes I Shaks. As You Like It, act v. sc. 2. 

Happiness — Know then this truth (enough for man to know), 
" Virtue alone is happiness below." 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. 309. 

Harmony — The hidden soul of harmony. Miltox, L Allegro, 1. 144. 

Harness — Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as 
he that putteth it off. 1 Kings xx. 11. 

Harp — Strange ! that a harp of thousand strings 
Should keep in tune so long. 

Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, bk. ii. hymn 19. 

Harp — The harp that once through Tara's halls 
The soul of music shed, 
Xow hangs as mute on Tara's walls 
As if that soul were fled. 

Moore, The Harp that once through Tara's Halls. 

Harps — We hanged our harps upon the willows. Ps. exxxvii. 2. 

Harvest — The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few. 

Matt. ix. 37. 
Hat — A hat not much the worse for wear. 

Cowper, History of John Gilpin. 

Hate — Who love too much, hate in the like extreme. 

Pope, Odyssey, bk. xv. 1. 79. 

Hate — How many will say " forgive," and find 
A sort of absolution in the sound 

To hate a little longer '. Texxysox, Sea Dreams. 



176 HATE— HEAD. 

Hate — These two hated with a hate 

Found only on the stage. Byron, Don Juan, can. iv. st. 93. 

Hater — A good hater. Johnsontana, Piozzi, 39. 

Hatred — Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, 
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. 

Congreve, The Mourning Bride, act iii. sc. 1. 

Hawk — I know a hawk from a handsaw. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2. 
He — Read my little fable, 
He that runs may read, 
Most can raise the flowers now, 

For all have got the seed ! Tennyson, The Flower. 

He — He that is not with me is against me. Luke xi. 23. 

He — He that will not when he may, 
When he will, he shall have nay. 

Burton, Anat. of Melancholy, part iii. sec. 2. 

He — Shine by the side of every path we tread 

With such a lustre, he that runs may read. Cowper, Tirocinium. 

He — He that fights and runs away 
May live to right another day.* 

Sir J. Mennis, Musarum DelicicB, 12mo, 1656. 

He — Inexorable conscience holds his court, 
With still, small voice the plot of guilt alarms. 

* * * * 

But wrapped in night, with terrors all his own, 
He speaks in thunder when the deed is done. 
Hear him, ye senates ! hear this truth sublime, 
" He who allows oppression shares the crime/' 

Eras. Darwin, Botanical Monitor. 

Head — The head is not more native to the heart. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. 



* Not in one copy of Sir J. Mennis, but inserted in MS. in a second in the 
Brit. Mus. The original is, says the Examiner, in a review of the first edition 
of " Familiar Words," from the well-known Greek verse which Demosthenes 
is said to have used when reproached for his flight, 

'Avr,% cpeCytvv Kcti ttclKiv iAa.yJ]<TET0U. 
In Hudibras, pt. iii. can. iii. 1. 243, we find, — 

For those that fly may fight again, 
Which he can never do that's slain. 
See pp. 150, 153. 



HEAD— HEART. 177 

Head — The very head and front of my offending 

Hath this extent; no more. Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. 3. 

Head — He nothing common did, nor mean, 
Upon that memorable scene ; 
But with his keener eye 
The axe's edge did try : 

Nor called the gods, in vulgar spite, 
To vindicate his helpless right ; 

But bowed his comely head 

Down as upon a bed ! Andrew Marvell, Ess. on Govt. 

Head — Such as take lodgings in a head 
That's to be let unfurnished.* 

Butler, Hudibras, part i. can. i. 1. iei. 

Head — Their head's sometimes so little, that there is no more room 

for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit for so much room. 

Fuller, Holy State of Natural Fools. 

Heady — Heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers 
of God. 2 Tim. iii. 4. 

Heap — How loved, how honoured once, avails thee not, 
To whom related, or by whom begot ; 
A heap of dust alone remains of thee : 
'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! 

Pope, To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, 1. 7. 

Heart — And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers 
Is always the first to be touched by the thorns. 

Moore, O think not my Spirits. 

Heart — Let not your heart be troubled. John xiv. l. 

Heart — And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, 
The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. 

Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 1. 263. 

Heart — Ferdinand. Here's my hand. 

Miranda. And mine, with my heart in H. 

Shaks. Tempest, act iii. sc. i. 

Heart — The heart knoweth his own bitterness. Prov. xiv. 10. 

Heart — A merry heart goes all the day, 

Your sad tires in a mile-a. Shaks. Winter's Tale, act iv. sc. 2. 



* Often the cockloft is empty in those which nature hath built many stories 
high.— Fflleb, Holy and Profane State, bk. v. chap, xviii. 



178 HE A R T—HEA VEN. 

Heart — If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, 
The mist is dispelled when a woman appears. 

Gay, Beggar's Opera, act ii. sc. 1. 

Heart — The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters; it 
is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not 
sufficient for it. Hugo, De Animd. 

Heart — And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, 
The maiden herself will steal after it soon. Moore, III Omens. 

Heart — But on and up, where Nature's heart 

Beats strong amid the hills. R. M. Milxes, Tragedy of the 

Lac de Gaube, st. 2. 

Heart — Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Prov. xiii. 12. 

Heart — To know, to esteem, to love — and then to part, 
Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart ! 

Coleridge, On taking leave of — , 1817. 

Heart — If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see 
That heart which others bleed for bleed for me. 

Congreve, Way of the World, act iii. sc. 12. 

Hearts — The free, fair homes of England ! 

Long, long in hut and hall 
May hearts of native proof he reared 

To guard each hallowed wall ! 
And green for ever be the groves, 

And bright the flow'ry sod, 
Where first the child's glad spirit loves 

Its country and its God. Fel. Hemans, Homes of England. 

Hearts — Hearts are not flint, and flints are rent ; 
Hearts are not steel, and steel is bent. 

Scott, RoJceby, can. i. 1. 17. 

Hearts — When true hearts lie withered, 
And fond ones are flown, 
Oh ! who would inhabit 

This bleak world alone ? Moore, Last Rose of Summer. 

Hearts — To live in hearts we leave behind 

Is not to die. Campbell, Hallowed Ground. 

Heaven — Beholding heaven and feeling hell. 

Moore, The Fire Worshippers. 



HE A V EN— HE A VIE ST. 179 

Heaven — As sweet and musical 

As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ; 
And, when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods 
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. 

Shaks. Love's Labour's Lost, act iv. sc. 3. 

Heaven — Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid, 

Some banished lover, or some captive maid. 

Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 1. si. 
Heaven — Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam; 

True to the kindred points of Heaven and home. 

Wordsworth, To a Sky Lark, xxx. 
Heaven — So excellent a king ! that was, to this, 

Hyperion to a satyr ! so loving to my mother, 

That he might not beteem the winds of heaven 

Visit her face too roughly. Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. 

Heaven — Weak foolish man, will Heaven reward us there 
With the same trash mad mortals wish for here ? 
The boy and man an individual makes, 
Yet sighest thou now for apples and for cakes ? 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. 174. 
Heaven-directed — To heirs unknown descends the unguarded store, 
Or wanders, Heaven-directed, to the poor. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. ii. 1. 149. 

Heaven-holding — -0 Friend, whom glad or grave we seek, 
Heaven-holding shrine ! 
I ope thee, touch thee, hear thee speak, 

And peace is mine. Leigh Hunt, The Lover of Music. 

Heavenly — And hast thou sought thy heavenly home, 
Our fond dear boy, — 
The realms where sorrow dare not come, 

Where life is joy? Delta (D. M. Moir), Casa Wappy. 

Heavens — Hung be the heavens with black I 

Shaks. K. Henry VI, part i. act i. sc. 1. 

Heaviest battalions — There is a common military maxim that 
i( Providence always favours the heaviest battalions," which 
has been attributed to Xapoleon. Similar words were fre- 
quently in the mouth of the General Lee of our revolutionary 
history, who was an Englishman that had served in the Prussian 
army. In a letter of Voltaire to M. le Kiche, dated Feb. 6, 
1770, " Le nombre des sages sera toujours petit. II est vrai 
qu'il est augmente ; mais ce n'est rien en comparison des sots, 



180 HEBREW— HEN-PECKED. 

et par malheur on dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bat- 
aillons."_ Thus far an American correspondent who adds, — 

I believe Lord Londonderry attributes a similar remark to 
Frederick the Great; and Haite, in his life of Gustavus Adolphus, 
says that monarch had no regard to that profane and foolish 
maxim, which was used by TVallenstein, that the Supreme Being 
always favours the greater squadrons. The same idea is sha- 
dowed forth in the common proverbs : " God helps them who 
help themselves/' and "Fortune favours the brave/' In his 
" Death of Marc Antony," published in 1701, Sir Charles 
Sedley has the following couplet, put in the mouth of the traitor 
Archytas, act iv. sc. 2 : — 

Let fools the fame of loyalty divide : 

Wise men and gods are on the strongest side. 

The idea was old in the time of Cicero, who speaks of it as 
" veterum proverbium ; " and it may be found in Virgil, Ovid, 
and Livy, the last of whom says, " Fortes fortunam adjuvare 
aiebant." 

Hebrew — A Hebrew knelt, in the dying light: 
His eye was dim and cold ; 
The hairs on his brow were silver-white, 
And his blood was thin and old. 

Hervey, The DeviVs Progress. 

Heed — "Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed 
lest he fall. 1 Cor. x. 12. 

Hell — Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed 
In one self place; but where we are is hell, 
And where hell is, there must we ever be. 
And, to be short, when all the world dissolves, 
And every creature shall be purified, 
All places shall be hell that are not heaven. Marlowe, Faustus. 

Hell — All Hell broke loose. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iv. 1. 918. 

Hell — In hopes to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell. 

Byrox, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. i. st. 20. 

Hell — The hell of waters! where, they howl and hiss. 

Ibid. can. iv. st. 69. 

Hen-pecked — But, ye lords of ladies intellectual! 
Inform us truly, have they not hen-pecked you all ? 

Byrox, Don Juan, can. i. st. 22. 



HERE— HIDES. 181 

Here — Here lies our sovereign lord the king, 
Whose word no man relies on ; 
He never says a foolish thing, 
Xor ever does a wise one.* 

Eochester, Written on Bedchamber Door of Charles II. 

Her — Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. 

Tenkyson, In Memoriam, xxxii. 

Heritage — Lord of himself, — that hentage of woe ! 

Byrox, Lara, can. i. st. 2. 
Hero — " No one is a hero to his valet." f 

Hero — It has heen said, and I believe with some shadow of truth, 
that no man is a hero to his valet de chambre. 

Foote, The Patron, act ii. sc. 1. 

Heroes — Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, 
From Macedonia's madman to the Swede. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. 220. 

Heroically — Free from all meaning, whether good or bad, 
And, in one word, heroically mad. 

Drydex, Absalom and Achitophel, 1. 416. 

Hero-worship — Loyalty, discipleship, all that was ever meant by 
hero worship, lives perennially in the human bosom. 

Carlyle, Essay, Sam. Johnson, p. is. 

Hey-day — At your age 

The hey-day in the blood is tame : it's humble. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4, 

Hide — At whose sight all the stars 
Hide their diminished heads. 

Miltox, Paradise Lost, bk. iv. 1. 34. 

Hides — He that hath light within his own clear breast 
May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day; 
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, 
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun : 
Himself is his own dungeon. Miltox, Comus, 1. 38i. 



* The first line is frequently quoted as — " Here lies our mvtton-eoting king* 
t This phrase is commonly attributed to Madame de Sevigne, but, on the 
authority of Madame Aisse, it belongs to Madame Cornuel. — Lettres, edit. 
J. Eave?ial, 1853. 

Few men are admired by their servants, 

Moxtaig^e, Essays, bk. iii. eh. 11. 
" My valet-de-chambre," said he, " is not aware of this. 1 ' — Plutarch, De 
hide et Osiride, ch. xxiv. 



182 HIGH— HOME. 

High — High thoughts I 
They come and go, 
Like the soft breathings of a listening maiden. 

Robert Nicole, Poems. 

Highly — What thou wouldst highly, 

That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false, 
And yet wouldst wrongly win. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 5. 

Hind — The hind that would be mated by the lion 

Must die for love. Shaks. AlVs Well that Ends Well, act i. sc. 1. 

Hip — / have you on the hip. Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act iv. sc. 1. 

Histories — Histories make men wise, poets, witty ; the mathema- 
tics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and 
rhetoric, able to contend. F. Bacon, Essay so, Of Studies. 

Hobsons choice — " Hobson's choice." * 

Hold — And hold high converse with the mighty dead ! 

Thomson, Seasons, Winter. 

Holiday -rejoicing — Who first invented work and bound the free 
And holiday-rejoicing spirit down. Chas. Lamb, Work. 

Holy — The place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Ex. iii. 5. 

Holy — Ay, call it holy ground, 

The soil where first they trod ; 
They have left unstained what there they found — 

Freedom to worship God. Hemans, The Landing of the 

Pilgrim Fathers in New England. 

Homage — Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue. 
Rochefoucauld, Maxim ccxvii. 

Home — 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, 
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.-f 

J. H. Payne, Home, Sweet Home.\ 



* Tobias Hobson was the first man in England that let out hackney 
horses. "When a man came for a horse, he was led into the stable, where 
there was a great choice, but he obliged him to take the horse which stood 
next to the stable door; so that every customer was alike well served accord- 
ing to his chance, from whence it became a proverb, when what ought to be 
your election was forced upon you, to say, " HobsoWs Choice." — /Spectator, 
No. 509. 

t " Home is home, though it be never so homely," was a proverb ; it is 
found in the collections of the seventeenth century. 

I From the Opera of Clari, the Maid of Milan. 



HOME— HONOUR. 183 

Home — Oar friends are as true, and our wives are as comely, 
And our home is still home be it ever so homely. 

Chas. Dibdin, Songs. 

Home — Since all that is not Heaven must fade, 
Light be the hand of ruin laid 
Upon the home I love. 

Keble, Christian Year, Monday in Whitsuntide. 

Home — " One's own home is the best home, though never so small." 
Bishop Percy, Translation from the Icelandic. 

Home-keeping — Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. 

Shaks. Two Gentlemen of Verona, act i. sc. i. 

Homes — The stately homes of England, 
How beautiful they stand ! 
Amidst their tall ancestral trees, 
? er all the pleasant land. 

Felicia Hemaxs, Homes of England. 

Honest — An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. 

Shaks. King Richard III, act iv. sc. i. 

Honesty — There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; 
For I am armed so strong in honesty 
That they pass by me as the idle wind, 
Which I respect not. Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act iv. sc. 3. 

Honesty — Honesty is the best policy. 

Fraxklix, Old Richard's Sayings. 

Honesty — " Honesty is the best policy/' but he who acts on that 
principle is not an honest man. Archbishop Whately. 

Honour — Yet this inconstancy is such. 
As you, too, shall adore ; 
I could not love thee, dear, so much, 
Loved I not honour more. 

E. Lovelace, To Lucasta, on going to the Wears. 

Honour — Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me 
off when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? Xo. 
Or an arm? Xo. Or take away the grief of a wound? Xo. 
Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? Xo. What is honour ? 
A word. What is in that word, honour ? What is that honour ? 
Air. A trim reckoning ! Who hath it ? He that died o' Wednes- 
day. Doth he feel it ? Xo. Doth he hear it ? Xo. r Tis in- 
sensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the 



184 HONO URED—HORA TIUS. 

living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore 
I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon ; and so ends my 
catechism. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act v. sc. 1. 

Honoured — Had left their walls lovely in form and mind; 
In sunny manhood he, — she honoured, fair, and kind. 

L. Hunt, Rimini. 
Hood — Hood an ass in reverend purple, 

So you can hide his two ambitious ears, 
And he shall pass for a cathedral doctor. 

Ben Jonson, Volpone, act i. sc. 2. 

Hook — Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush, 
In hope her to attain by hook or crook. 

Spenser, Faerie Queene, bk. i. can. i. st. 17. 

Hope — True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings : 
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. 

Shaks. K. Richard III, act v. sc. 2. 

Hope — While there is life there's hope, he cried. 

J. Gay, The Sick Man and the Angel. 

Hope — All hope abandon, ye who enter here.* 

Cary, Dante, can. iii. 1. 9. 
Hope — Hope, thou nurse of young desire. 

Bickerstaff, Love in a Village, act i. sc. 1. 

Hopes — Our hopes, like tow' ring falcons, aim 
At objects in an aery height ; 
The little pleasure of the game 
Is from afar to view the flight. 

Prior, To the Hon. Charles Montague. 

Horatio — Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man 
As e'er my conversation coped withal. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Horatius — When the good man mends his armour, 

And trims his helmet's plume ; 
When the good wife's shuttle merrily 

Goes flashing through the loom ; 
With weeping and with laughter 

Still is the story told, 
How well Horatius kept the bridge 

In the brave days of old. Macaulay, Lays, Horatius. 

* " Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch' entrate." 



HORROR'S— HOW. 185 

Horror s head — On horror s head horrors accumulate. 

Shaks. Othello, act iii. sc. 3. 

Horseleach — The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. 

Prov. xxx. 15. 

Horsemanship — And witch the world with noble horsemanship. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act iv. sc. i. 

Honesty — If humour, wit, and honesty could save 
The humorous, witty, honest, from the grave, 
The grave had not so soon this tenant found 
Whom honesty, and wit, and humour crown'd. 

Stephen Duck, On Joe Miller. 

Hour — Some wee short hour ayont the twal. 

Burns, Death and Dr. Hornbook. 

Hour — Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night i. 1. 67. 

Hours — ? Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, 
And ask them what report they bore to Heaven. 

Ibid, night ii. 1. 376. 

Hours — The Bell strikes one ! We take no note of time 
But by its loss. As if an angel spoke, 
I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, 
It is the knell of my departed hours. Ibid, night i. 1. 53. 

House — It is better to go to the house of mourning* than to go to 
the house of feasting. Eccles. vii. 2. 

House — You take my house when you do take the prop 
That doth sustain my house ; you take my life 
When you do take the means whereby I live. 

Shaks. Merchant of Venice, act iv. sc. l. 

Household — Then shall our names, 

Familiar in their mouths as household words, 
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, 
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloster, 
Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. 

Shaks. K. Henry V, act iv. sc. 3. 
How — How hard their lot who neither won nor lost ! 

J. Beattie, Epigram. The Bucks had dined. 

How — Whatever was required to be done, their Circumlocution Office 
was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of 
perceiving how not to do it. C. Dickens, Little Dorrit, chap. x. 



186 



HOW— HUSBAND. 



How — While tumbling down the turbid stream, 

Lord love us, how we apples swim .' D. Mallett, Tyburn. 

Hum — Hear ye not the hum 

Of mighty workings? Keats, Sonnet to Hay don. 

Humanity — wearisome condition of humanity I 

P. Gretille (Lord Brooke), Mustapha, act v. sc. 4. 

Humour — The humour of it. 

Shaks. Merry Wives of Windsor, act ii. sc. 1. 

Husband— And truant husband should return, and say, 
" My dear, I was the first who came away.'' 

Byeox, Don Juan, can. i. st. ml 




/. 




—I am a part of all that I have met* 

Tennyson, Ulysses. 

I — / a in not only witty in myself, but the cause 
that wit is in other men. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part ii. act i. sc. 2. 

/ — Tis strange the Hebrew noun which means / am, 
The English always use to govern " damn/' 

Byron, Don Juan, can. i. st. 14. 

1 — Triumphant arch, that filTst the sky 

TThen storms prepare to part, 
/ ask not proud philosophy 

To teach me what thou art. Campbell, To the Rainbow. 

I — I cannot eat but little meat, 
My stomach is not good ; 
But sure I think that I can drink 
With him that wears a hood. 

Bishop Still, G. Gurtons Needle, act ii. 

/ — I care for nobody, no, not I, 
If no one cares for me.f 



Love in a Village, act i. sc. 3. 



♦ I live not in myself, but I become 
Portion of that around me ; and to me 
Hish mountains are a feeling, and the hum 
Of human cities torture. — Byro:x, Childe Harold, can. iii. st. 72. 

t If naebody care for me, 

I'll care for naebody. — Burxs. 

The original in the old ballad reads, — 

I envy nobody, no, not I, 
And nobody envies me. 

King Henry VIII, meeting his miller, envies him, as he thus sings. 



188 /. 

/ — / dare do all that may become a man : 

Who dares do more is. none. Shaks. Macbeth, act i, sc. r. 

Td — Surely 'tis better, when summer is over, 
To die when all fair things are fading away. 
Some in life's winter may toil to discover 

Means of procuring a weary delay. 
I'd be a butterfly, living a rover, 

Dying when fair things are fading away. 

" T. H. Bayley, Songs. 

I — / do not love thee, Doctor Fell : 
The reason why I cannot tell ; 
But this alone I know full well, 
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.* 

" Tom Brown having committed some great fault at the Uni- 
versity, the Dean of Christ Church threatened to expel him ; but 
Tom, with a very submissive epistle begging pardon, so pleased 
the Dean, that he was minded to forgive him upon this condition, 
that he should translate this epigram out of Marshal (sic) 
extempore, — 

Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare ; 
Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te. 

Which he immediately rendered into English thus, — 

I do not love you, Doctor Fell : 

But why I cannot tell ; 

But this I know full well, 

I do not love you, Doctor Fell." 

Tom Brown, Works, vol. iv. p. 113, ed. 1710. 

Our version is that commonly received, and is less rugged. 
The Dean, afterwards Bishop of Oxford, died 1686. This 
will answer the query in the leader of one of our chief news- 
papers, "Who was Dr. Fell?" 

7" — I give thee sixpence! I will see thee d — d first. 

Canning, Knife- Grinder. 



* This is imitated from Martial, ep. xxxiii. lib. 1, and has been a favourite 
with epigrammatists. Here is a specimen from a French author : — 
Je ne vous aime pas, Hylas ; 
Je n'en saurois dire la cause : 
Je sais seulement un chose, 
C'est que je ne vous aime pas. 

Bussy IIabuti> t , ep. xxxiii. bk. 1.— Ed. 



1. 189 

/ — I give thee all — I can no more, 
Tho' poor the offering be ; 
My heart and lute are all the store 
That I can bring to thee. 

Moore, Miscellaneous Poems, and National Airs. 

I — / hear a voice you cannot hear, 
Which says I must not stay ; 
I see a hand you cannot see, 

Which beckons me away. Tickell, Colin and Lucy. 

I — I went to Frankfort, and got drunk 
With that most learn'd professor, Brunck ; 
I went to Worts, and got more drunken 
With that more learn' d professor, Ruhncken. 

Porsox, FaceticB Cantab. 

I — / on my journey all alone proceed. 

Churchill, The Journey, 1. im. 

I — Thank you, good sir, / owe you one. 

Colman, Poor Gentleman, act i. sc. 2. 

I — / remember, I remember, 

The fir-trees dark and high ; 
I used to think their slender tops 

Were close against the sky. 
It was a childish ignorance, 

But now 'tis little joy 
To know I'm further off from heaven 

Than when I was a boy. Hood, Poems. 

I — / remember, I remember, 

How my childhood fleeted by, — 
The mirth of its December, 

And the warmth of its July ; 
On my brow, love, on my brow, love, 

There are no signs of care ; 
But my pleasures are not now, love, 
What childhood's pleasures were. 

W. M. Praed (June 1833), Songs, vol. ii. p. 379. 

/ — Quoth Hudibras, " i" smell a rat ; * 

Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate." Butler, Hudibras, can. i. 1. 821. 



* Smell a rat. — B. Jo^sox, Tale of a Tub, act iv. sc. 3. 



190 I— ILL. 

I — / know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart ; 
I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. 

Moore, Irish Melodies. 

Idea — The idea of her life shall sweetly creep 
Into his study of imagination. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act iv. sc. 1. 

Ides — Beware the Ides of March. Shaks. Jul. Ccesar, act i. sc. 2. 

Idle — As idle as a painted ship 

Upon a painted ocean. Coleridge, Ancient Mariner. 

Idler — An idler is a watch that wants both hands ; 

As useless if it goes as when it stands. Cowper, Retirement. 

If — If all the world and love were young, 
And truth in every shepherd's tongue, 
These pretty pleasures might me move 

To live with thee, and be thy love. Sir W. Raleigh, The 

Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd. 

If — Your "«/"" is the only peacemaker ; much virtue in " if." 

Shaks. As You Like It, act v. sc. 4. 

Ignorance — And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, 1. 62. 

Ignorance — Where blind and naked ignorance 

Delivers brawling judgments, unabashed, 
On all things all day long. Tennyson, Idylls, Vivien. 

Ignorance — Xothing is more terrible than active ignorance. 

Goethe, Opinions, p. 108. 

Ignorant — A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also 
ignorant of his own. Ibid. p. 112. ed. 1853. 

Ilium — Was this the face that launch' d a thousand ships, 
And burnt the topmost towers of Ilium ? 
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. 
Her lips suck forth my soul ! see where it flies. 

Marlowe, Faustus. 

Ill — /// blows the wind that profits nobody. 

Shaks. K. Henry VI, part iii. act ii. sc. 5. 

/// — 77/ ware is never cheap. Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. 

Ill — It is an ill wind that turns none to good. 

Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. 



ILL-FAVOURED— IMP ERFECT1 OX S. 191 

EJ -favoured — An ill -favoured thing, sir, but mine own. 

Shaks. As You Like It, act v. sc. 4. 

Ills — Kings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious, 

O'er a' the ills- life victorious. Burns, Tarn O'Shanter. 

Ills — There mark what (Us the scholar's life assail — ■ 
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. 

S. Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, 1. 159. 

Illustrious — El usurious predecessor. 

Burke, Thoughts on the Present Discontents. 

Image — But our captain counts the image of God, nevertheless his 
image cut in ebony, as if done in ivory. 

Fuller, Holy State, The Good Sea- Captain. 

Image — How widely its agencies vary — 

To save — to ruin — to curse — to bless — 
As even its minted coins express, 

Now stamped with the image of good Queen Bess, 
And now of a Bloody Mary ! Hood, Miss Kilmansegg. 

Imagination — The lunatic, the lover, and the poet 
Are of imagination all compact. 

Shaks. Midsummer-Nights Dream, act v. sc. 1. 

Imagination — But who can paint 

Like nature? Can imagination boast, 

Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? 

Thomson, The Seasons, Spring, 1. 465. 
Immortal — One of the few, the immortal names 

That were not born to die. Halleck, Marco Bozzaris. 

Immortality — So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, 
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. 

Shaks. Sonnet, To his Love. 
Immortals — Never, believe me, 

Appear the Immortals, — 

Never alone. Coleridge, The Visit of the Gods.* 

Imparadistd — Imparadised in one another's arms. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iv. 1. soe. 

Imperfections — Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd, 
No reckoning made, but sent to my account 
With all my imperfections on my head. Shaks. Ham, act i. sc.o. 

* Imitated from Schiller. 



192 IMPERIAL— INIQUITY. 

Imperial — Th' imperial ensign, which, full high advanced, 
Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, ok. i. 1. 536. 

Impious — ' Tis impious in a good man to be sad. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night iv. 1. 676. 
Impossible — Whoe'er she be, 
That not impossible she, 
That shall command my heart and me. 

It. Crashaw, Wishes to his supposed Mistress. 

Impossible — And what's impossible can't be, 
And never, never comes to pass. 

G. Colman (the younger), The Maid of the Moor. 

Impudence — Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, 
But good men starve for want of impudence. 

Dryden, Epilogue to Lee's Constantine the Great. 

Impulse — One impulse from a vernal wood 
May teach you more of man, 
Of moral evil and of good, 

Than all the sages can. Wordsworth, The Tables Turned. 

Inactivity — The commons, faithful to their system, remained in a 
wise and masterly inactivity. Sir J. Mackintosh, Vind. Gallicce. 

Indemnity — " Indemnity for the past, and security for the future."* 
Russell, Memoir of Fox, vol. iii. p. 345. 

Indian — Go, like the Indian in another life, 
Expect thy dog, thy bottle, and thy wife; 
As well as dream such trifles are assigned 
As toys and empires to a godlike mind. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. 176. 

Ingredient — Cassio. Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the 
ingredient is a devil. 

lago. Come, come ; good wine is a good familiar creature, if it 
be well used. Shaks. Othello, act ii. sc. 3. 

Inhumanity — Maris inhumanity to man 
Makes countless thousands mourn. 

Burns, Man was made to mourn. 

Iniquity — Iniquity seeks out companions still, 
And mortal men are armed to do ill. 

Greene, Looking Glass for London, 1594. 

* Mr. Pitt's phrase.— De Quincy, Theological Essays, vol. ii. p. 170. 



INK— IRON. 193 

In k — But words are things, and a small drop of ink, 
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces 
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. 

Byron, Don Juan, can. iii. st. 88. 

Inn — "VYTioe'er has travelled life's dull round, 
Where'er his stages may have been, 
May sigh to think he still has found 
His warmest welcome at an inn.* 

Shexstoxe, Written on the Window of an Inn. 

Innocence — 0. Mirth and Innocence ! 0, Milk and Water ! 

Ye happy mixtures of more happy days ! Byrox, Beppo, st. so. 

Instruments — The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices 

Make instruments to plague us. Shaks. King Lear, act v. sc. s. 

Insults — Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. 

Wordsworth, The Excursion, bk. iii. 

Intellectual — Hers is the state, the splendour, and the throne, 
An intellectual kingdom all her own. Cowper, Tirocinium,!, n. 

Intentions — Hell is paved with good intentions.-^ 

Boswell's Life of Johnson. 

Intolerable — Intolerable, not to be endured. 

Shaks. Taming of the Shrew, act v. sc. 2. 

Intoxication — Man, being reasonable, must get drank; 
And the best of life is but intoxication. 

Byrox, Don Juan, can. ii. st. 179. 

Invisible — thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to 
be known by, let us call thee devil ! Shaks. Othello, act ii. sc. 3. 
Iron — The iron entered into his soid.\ 

Sterxe ; Sentimental Journey. The Captive. 

Iron — Ay me ! what perils do environ 
The man that meddles with cold iron ! 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. i. can. iii. 1. 1. 



* There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man. by which so much 
happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn. — Johxsox, Bosicell's 
Life. 1766. 

Archbishop Leighton used often to say, that if he were to choose a place to 
die in. it should be an inn. 

f Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. 

Herbert, Jacula Prudenhan. 

I Psalm cv. 18. Book of Common Prayer. 



194 ITCHING— ITHURIEL. 

Itching — You yourself 

Are much condemned to have an itching palm. 

Shaks. Julius C<2sar, act iv. sc. 3. 

Itching — Heap to themselves teachers having itching ears. 

2 Tim. iv. 3. 

Ithuriel — Him thus intent, Ithuriel with his spear 

Touched lightly. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iv. 1. 810. 







JACK— JOLLY. 




ACK — Jack shall pipe, and Gill shall dance. 

Wither, Poem on Christmas. 

Jar — Love is hurt withya;* and fret ; 
Love is made a vague regret. 

Tennyson, Miller s Daughter. 

Jaws — Drop head foremost in the jaws 

Of vacant darkness and to cease. 

Tennyson, La Memoriam, can. xxxiv. 4. 

Jehu — And the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of 
Nimshi : for he driveth furiously. 2 Kings ix. 20. 

Jew — I am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew. 

Shaks. K. Henry LV, part i. actii. sc. 4. 

Jew — This is the Jew 

That Shakespeare drew.* Attributed to Pope. 

Jew — / thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. 

Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act iv. sc. 1. 

«76io — I am a Jew: hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, 
organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions ? 

Lbid. act iii. sc. 1. 

Joint — The time is out of joint. Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 5. 

Jolly — The Muse, the jolly Muse, it is ! 
She answered to my call ; 
She changes with that mood or this, 

Is all-in-all to all. Texxysox, Will. Waterproof 



* On the 14th of February, 1741, Macklin established his fame as an actor, 
in the character of Shylock, in the " Merchant of Venice," and restored to 
the stage a play which had been forty years supplanted by Lord Lansdowne's 
** Jew of Venice." 



196 JO URNEYS—JUDICIO US. 

Journeys — Journeys end in lovers meeting, 
Every wise man's son doth know. 

Shaks. Twelfth Night, act ii. se. 3. 

Jove — Love endures no tie, 

And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury .* 

Drydex, Palamon and Arcite, bk. ii. 

Jove — Jove in his chair, 

Of the sky Lord May'r. O'Hara, Midas, act i. sc. 1. 

Joy — Joy, joy for ever ! my task is done ; 
The gates are passed, and heaven is won. 

Moore, Paradise and the Peri. 

Joy — They hear a voice in every wind, 
And snatch a fearful joy. 

Gray, On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. 

Joy — Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud; 
We in ourselves 'rejoice ! 
And thence flows all that charms, or ear or sight, 

All melodies the echoes of that voice, 
All colours a suffusion from that light. 

Coleridge, Dejection, an Ode, st. 5. 

Joyful — Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn, 
Edged with sharp laughter, cuts atwain 
The knots that tangle human creeds. 

Texxysox, To , Poems, p. 13. 11th edition. 

Joyous — Her birth was of the wombe of morning dew, 
And her conception of the joyous prime. 

Spexser, Faerie Queene, bk. iii. can vi. st. 3. 

Joys — Of joys departed, 

Not to return, how painful the remembrance ! 

E. Blair, The Grave, 1. 100. 

Judgment — Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for 
something in him we cannot abide. 

J. Seldex, Table Talk, Judgments, 



* Perjuria ridet amantium 

Jupiter. — Tibullus. lib. iii. el. vi. 1. 49. 
A Latin proverb translated by Shakspeare, Dryden, and others. 
At lovers' perjuries, they say, Jove laughs. 

Shaks. Borneo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 2. 



JUDGMENTS— JURY. 197 

Judgments — 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none 
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.* 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. i. 1. 9. 

Judicious — Though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make 
the judicious grieve. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Jury — The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, 
May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two 
Guiltier than him they try. Shaks. Meas.for Meas. act ii. sc. 1. 



But as, when an authentic watch is shown, 
Each man winds up and rectifies his own, 
So in our very judgments, &c. Suckling, Epilogue to Aglaura. 





KATERFELTO—KIXG. 




ATERFELTO—Katerfelto, with his hair on end 
At his own wonder?, wondering for his bread. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. iv. Winter Evening. 

Keep — Oh keep me innocent, make others great ! 
Written on a window by Caroline Matilda, 
Queen of Denmark, Sister of George III. 

Keeps — The shadow, cloaked from head to foot, 
Who keeps the keys of all the creeds. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxiii. 1. 

Kettle — What great things from small may he springing 
Is proved by the engine's deep soh; 
And yet, after all. the beginning 

"Was the kettle that sings on the hob ! 

Kick — A kick, that scarce would move a horse, 

May kill a sound divine. Cowper, The Yearly Distress, v. 16. 

Kid — The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard 
shall lie down with the kid. Isaiah xi. 6. 

Kin — A little -more than kin, and less than kind. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. 

Kindness — The man that lays his hand upon a woman, 
Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch 
TThoni 'twere gross flattery to name a coward. 

Tobin, Honeymoon, act ii. sc. 1. 

King — Xot all the water in the rough rude sea 
Can wash the balm off from an anointed king. 

Shaks. K. Richard II, act iii. sc. 2. 

King — But yonder comes the powerful king of day, 

Rejoicing in the east. Thomson, The Seasons, Summer, 1. si. 



KING— KIT-KAT. 199 

King — The king himself has followed her 
When she has walked before. 

Goldsmith, Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize.* 

King — This was the ruler of the land, 
When Athens was the land of fame ; 
This was the light that led the band, 
When each was like a living flame ; 
The centre of earth's noblest ring, 
Of more than men, the more than king. 

Croly, Pericles and Aspasia. 

Kings — Kings have no such couch as thine, 

As the green that folds thy grave. Tennyson, A Dirge, p. si. 

Kiss — The kiss, snatched hasty from the sidelong maid. 

Thomson, The Seasons, Winter, 1. 625. 

Kiss — 1. Among thy fancies tell me this : 
What is the thing we call a kiss ? 
2. I shall resolve ye what it is. 
It is a creature born and bred 
Between the lips all cherry red; 
By love and warm desires fed ; 

Chorus. And makes more soft the bridal bed. 

Herrick, Songs. 

Kisses — Stolen kisses are always sweeter, f 

Leigh Hunt, Indicator. 

Kithe — He that had neyther been kithe nor kin 

Might have seen a full fayre sight. Percy, Guy of Gisborne. 

Kit-Kat — A portrait, two-thirds the size of the subject. 

The Kit-Kat Club, formed about 1700, consisted of thirty- 
nine noblemen and gentlemen attached to the house of Hanover. 



* Written in imitation of Chanson sur le fameux La Palisse, which is 
attributed to Bernard de la Monnoye, — 

" On dit que dans ses amours 
II fut caresse des belles, 
Qui le suivirent toujours, 

Tant qu'il marcha devant elles." 
See also Shakspeare : — 

Do you not follow the young Lord Paris 1 
Serv. Ay, sir, ichen he icalks before me. 

Troilus and Cressida, act iii. sc. 1. 
t See the Latin proverb : — 

" Dulce pomum quum abest custos." 



200 KNELL— KNO WLED GE. 

They took their title from Christopher Katt, their pastry-cook. 
Pope or Arbuthnot wrote the following epigram on the toasts of 
the club : — 

"Whence deathless Kit-Kat took his name 
Few critics can unriddle ; 
Some say from pastry-cook it came, 

And some from Cat and Fiddle. 
From no trim beaux its name it boasts, 

Grey statesmen, or green wits ; 
But from this pell-mell pack of toasts, 
Of old Cats and young Kits." 
The term came to be applied to portraits owing to Sir Godfrey 
Xneller having executed likenesses of the members for Jacob 
Tonson, the bookseller who was secretary of the club, which 
were all of one size, then new, and still distinguished as the 
Kit-Kat size. The portraits are still in the possession of Tonson's 
representatives. Cuxxixgham, London. 

Knell — That all- softening, overpowering knell, 
The tocsin of the soul — the dinner-bell. 

Byrox, Don Juan, can. v. st. 49. 

Knell — Hear it not, Duncan ; for it is a knell 
That summons thee to heaven or to hell. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act ii. sc. 1. 

Knife — War, war is still the cry, " tear even to the knife I" * 

Byrox, Childe Harold' 's Filgrimage, can. i. st. 86. 

Knowledge — And all our knowledge is, ourselves to know. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. 397. 

Knowledge — Knowledge is power. — Nam et ipsa scientia potestas 
est. Bacox, Meditationes Sacrce, De H&resibus. 

Knowledge — Knowledge is proud that he has learnt so much; 
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. vi. Winter Walk at Noon. 

Knowledge — Let knowledge grow from more to more, 
But more of reverence in us dwell ; 
That mind and soul, according well, 
May make one music as before. Texxysox, In Memoriam. 



* " War even to the knife" was the reply of Palafox, the governor of Sara- 
goza, when summoned to surrender by the French when they besieged that 
city in 1808. 



KNOWLEDGE— KNUCKLE-END. 201 

Knowledge — A zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 

Rom. x. 2. 

Knowledge — Who loves not knowledge? who shall rail 
Against her beauty ? May she mix 
"With men and prosper ! Who shall fix 
Her pillars ? Let her work prevail. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxiii. 1. 

Known — What shall I do to be for ever known, 

And make the age to come my own ? Cowley, The Motto. 

Know-nothings. — A popular name for a native American party, 
founded in the United States in 1853, to combat the growing 
ascendency of the Irish and German immigrants. Xo one was 
admitted to it whose fathers and grandfathers were not born in 
America. This party may again spring into importance. The 
name is often quoted by newspaper writers. 

Knuckle — To whip a top, to knuckle down at taw, 
To swing upon a gate, to ride a straw, 
To play at push-pin with dull brother peers, 
To reign the monarch in a porter's ears. 

Chukchill, Candidate, 1. 325. 

Knuckle-end — Scotland — that knuckle-end of England, that land 
of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur. Sydney Smith, Memoir. 





LABOUR— LAND. 




ABOUR — "Labour is worship!" the robin is 
singing ; 
" Labour is worship V the wild bee is rino-mg. 
Mrs. Frances Osgood. 

Labour — I have had my labour for my travail, 

Shaks. Troilus and Cressida, act i. sc. 1. 
Labour — Eemembering without ceasing your work of faith, and 
labour of love. 1 Thess. i. 3. 

Laboured — Such laboured nothings, in so strange a style. 

Pope, Essay en Criticism, pt. ii. 1. 126. 
Labourer — The labourer is worthy of his reward. 1 Tim. v. is. 

Laburnums — Laburnums dropping wells of fire. 

Texnysox, In Jlemoriam, lxxxii. 3. 

Ladder — Alas ! we make 

A ladder of our thoughts where angels step, 
But sleep ourselves at the foot. Eliz. Laxdox. 

Lady — And, when a lady's in the case, 
Tou know all other things give place. 

J. Gay, The Hare and many Friends. 

Lady — The lady doth protest too much, methinks. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Laid — "Well said ; that was laid on with a trowel. 

Shaks. As You Like It, act i. sc. 2. 

Lamps — Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, 

Like hiddenlamps in old sepulchral urns. Cowper, Conversation. 

Land — Unto a land flowing with milk and honey. Exod. iii. s. 



LAXGS YNE—L A TE. 203 

Langsyne — "When time lias past and seasons fled, 
Your hearts will feel like mine. 
And aye the sang will maist delight 
That minds ye o' langsyne. 

Miss Blamire, The Traveller s Return. 
Langsyne — No joy like by-past joy appears; 
For what is gone we fret and pine. 
Were life spun out a thousand years, 

It could not match Langsyne ! Delta (D. M. Mora), Langsyne. 
Language — The Power incensed, the pageant will desert, 
The pompous strain, the sacerdotal stole; 

But haply, in some cottage far apart, 
May hear, well-pleased, the language of the soul ; 
And in his hook of life the inmates poor enrol. 

Burns, Cotter's Saturday Night. 
Language — that those lips had language ! Life has passed 
With me hut roughly since I heard thee last. 

Cowper, On the Receipt of my Mothers Picture. 
Lards — Falstaff sweats to death, 

And lards the lean earth as he walks along. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act ii. sc. 2. 
Lark — The bonnie lark, companion meet ! . . . . 
TTi' sprecld'd breast, 
"When upward-springing, blvthe, to greet 

The purpling East. 

Burns, To a Mountain Daisy. 
Last — The last link is broken 
That bound me to thee, 
And the words thou hast spoken 

Have rendered me free. Miss Fanny Steers, Song. 

Last — Though last, not least, in love. 

Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act iii. sc. 1. 
Last — 'Tis the last rose of summer 

Left blooming alone. Moore, Last Rose of Summer . 

Last — Last year, my love, it was my hap 
Behind a grenadier to be, 
And, but he wore a hairy cap, 

Xo taller man, methinks, than me. Thackeray, Mis. i. p. 1:. 
Late — Pleased me, long choosing, and beginning late. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ix. 1. 26. 
Late — Too early seen unknown, and known too late. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 5. 



2(M LA UGH— LEARNED. 

Laugh — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? 
Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? 

Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, I. 213. 

Laugheth — Feebly she laugheth in the languid /noon, 
While Porphyro upon her face cloth look, 
Like puzzled urchin on an aged crone 
"Who keepeth closed a wondrous riddle-book. 

Heats, Eve of St. Agnes. 

Laughing — Laughing because he has nothing to say. 

Lady M. W. aIoxtagu. The Lover. 
Laic — To the law and to the testimony. Isaiah viii. 20. 

Law — Love is the fulfilling of the law. Bom. xiii. 10. 

Law — Let us consider the reason of the case ; for nothing is law 
that is not reason. 

Sir J. Powell, Coggs v. Bernard, ii. Lcl. Eaym. gu. 

Law — Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her 

seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: 

all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as 

feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power. 

E. Hooker, Ecclesiastical Polity, bk. i. 

Law — The very law which moulds a tear, 
And bids it trickle from its source, 
That law preserves the earth a sphere, 
And guides the planets in their course. 

S. Eogers, To a Tear. 

Law — Still you keep o' the windy side of the law* 

Shaks. Twelfth Night, act iii. sc. 4. 

Laws — Since laws were made for every degree. 
To curb vice in others, as well as in me. 

Gay, Beggars Opera, act iii. sc. 4. 

Leaf— Drop, drop into the grave, old leaf, 
Drop, drop iuto the grave ! 
The summer's gone, thine acorns sown ; 

Drop, drop into the grave ! Ebexezer Elliot, To a Leaf 

Learned — Content if hence the unlearned their wants may view, 
The learned reflect on what before they knew. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. iii. 1. 79. 

* Windward of the law. — Churchill, Ghost, bk. iv. 



LEAST— LIBERTY. 205 

Least — Of two evils I Lave chose the least* 

Prior, Imitation of Horace. 

Leave — Leave her to Heaven, 

And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, 
To prick and sting her. Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. v. 

Leaves — Like the leaves of the forest, when summer is green, 
That host, with their banners, at sunset were seen, 
Like the leaves of the forest, when autumn hath blown, 
That host, on the morrow, lay withered and strown. 

Byro>~, Destruction of Sennacherib's Host, 1. 4. 

Let — Let those love now who never loved before, 
Let those who always loved now love the more.f 

Parxell, The Pervigilium Veneris. 

Libel — The greater the truth, the greater the libel. I 

Lord Manspielj), Charge, circa 1789. 

Libel — By whose false gloss the very Bible 

Might be interpreted a libel. Churchill, Ghost, bk. iii. 1. 725. 

Liberal — Though her mien carries much more invitation than 
command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose beha- 
viour; to love her was a liberal education. i 

Steele, The Tatler, no. 49. 

Liberty — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. 
"Webster, Second Speech on Foot's Resolution. 

Liberty — liberty ! liberty ! how many crimes are committed in thy 
name! Madame Poland. 

Liberty I must have liberty 

Witftal, as large a charter as the wind, 
To blow on whom I please. Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. :. 

Liberty — Give me liberty, or give me death .' 

P.Henry, Speech, March, 177-5. 



* De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum. 

Thos. a Kjbmpis, Imitation of Christ, bk. iii. ch. 12. 
t Written in the time of Julius Caesar, and by some ascribed to Catullus: — 
Cras amet qui nunquam amavit, 
Quique amavit, cras amet. 
I Juries vrere browbeaten and insulted if they dared to find a verdict beyond 
the mere fact of publication of this most absurd maxim. Mr. Fox, in 1791, 
passed an explanatory bill restoring to juries their right of decision. 

i Leish Hunt incorrectly ascribes the expression, to love her was a liberal 
::;/>, to Congreve. 



206 LIBERTY— LIGHT. 

Liberty — License they mean when they cry liberty. 

Milton, Sonnets, son. xii. 

Lies — Lies like truth. Shaks. Macbeth, act v. sc. 5. 

Lies — Where history's pen its praise or blame supplies, 

And lies like truth, and still like truth it lies. Byron, Lara. 

Lies — Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, 
To please the fools and puzzle all the wise. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 1. 114. 

Life — No, Life is a waste of wearisome hours, 
Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns; 
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers 
Is always the first to be touched by the thorns. 

Moore, Oh think not my spirit. 

Life — In small proportion we just beauties see, 
And in short measures life may perfect be. 

Joy son, Good Life, Long Life. 

Life — Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know 
That life protracted is protracted woe. 

Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, 1. 257. 

Life — We watched her breathing through the night, 
Her breathing soft and low ; 
As in her breast the wave of life 

Kept heaving to and fro. Hood, The Death-Bed. 

Life — The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees 

Is left this vault to brag of. Shaks. Macbeth, act ii. sc. 3. 

Life — Variety's the very spice of life, 

That gives it all its flavour. Cowper, bk. ii. The Timepiece. 

Life — The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill to- 
gether. Shaks. AIVs Well that Ends Well, act iv. sc. 3. 

Life — Life's a jest, and all things show it; 

I thought so once, and now I know it. Gay, Epitaph on Himself 

Life's cup — Years steal 

Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb ; 
And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iii. st. 2. 

Life's end — That life is long which answers life's great end. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night v. 1. 773. 

Light — He was a burning and a shining light. John v. 35. 



LIGHT— LIKE. 207 

Light — 'Tis sweet to view, from half-past five to six, 
Our long wax candles, with short cotton wicks, 
Touch' d by the lamplighter's Promethean art, 
Start into light, and make the lighter start. 

Horace Smith, Rejected Addresses (Crabbe). 

Light — Where Washington hath left 
His awful memory 
A light for aftertimes ! 

Southey, Ode written during the War with America, 1814. 

Light — But, soft ! what light through yonder window breaks? 
It is the east, and Juliet is my sun ! * 

Shaks. Borneo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 2. 

Light — Thus, when the lamp that lighted 

The traveller at first goes out, 
He feels awhile benighted, 

And looks around in fear and doubt. 
But soon, the prospect clearing, 

By cloudless starlight on he treads, 
And thinks no lamp so cheering 

As that light which heaven sheds. 

Moore, Fd mourn the Hopes. 

Light — A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of Thy people 
Israel. Luke ii. 32. 

Light— Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile. 

Shaks. Love's Labour's Lost, act i. sc. 1. 

Light — Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you. 

John xii. 35. 

Lights — Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning. 

Luke xii. 35, 

Like — Like — but oh! how different! 

Wordsworth, Poems of the Imagination, xxix. 



* Shakerley Marmion has irritated this: — 

That more than earthly light breaks through that window, 
Brighter than all the glittering train of nymphs 

That wait on Cynthia 

or. when attended by those lesser stars, 
She treads the azure circle of the heavens. 

Antiquary, act ii. sc. 1 (1641). 



208 LIKE— LIVE. 

Like — Like the dew on the mountain, 

Like the foam on the river, 

Like the bubhle on the fountain, 

Thou art gone and for ever. 

Scott, The Lady of the Lake, can. iii. st. 16. 

Limbo — Limbo, a word often used by literati ; " the limbo of dead 
mags;" from limbics, a border : limbus fatuorum, the paradise of 
fools ; limbus puer or um, the hell (place of darkness) of unbaptized 
infants. See Paradise Lost, bk. iii. 1. 440-497. 

Line — As a wit, if not first, in the very first line. 

Goldsmith, Retaliation, 1. 96. 

Linen — It is not linen you're icearing out, 

But human creatures' lives.* Hood, Song of the Shirt. 

Lion — But Titus f said, with his uncommon sense, 
When the Exclusion Bill was in suspense, 
" I hear a lion in the lobby roar." 

Kev. J. Bramston, Art of Politics. 
Lips — With a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye. 

Scott, Marmion, can. v. st. 12. 
Lips — Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. 

Shaks. K. Richard III, act iv. sc. 3. 

Literary — He liked those literary cooks 
Who skim the cream of others' books, 
And ruin half an author's graces 
By plucking bon-mots from their places. 

Han. More, Florio, a Tale. 

Little — Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump ? 

1 Cor. v. 6. 

Live — Thus from the time we first begin to know, 
We live and learn, but not the wiser grow. 

John Pomfret, Reason. 

Live — For we that live to please, must please to live. 

Johnson, Prologue on the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre. 

Live — To live with them is far less sweet 

Than to remember thee. J Moore, i" saw Thy Form. 



* It's no fish ye're buying : it's men's lives. — Scott, The Antiquary, eh. xi. 
t Col. Titus, in a debate on the Exclusion Bill, January 7, 1680. 
I In imitation of Shenstone : — " Hen ! quanto minus est cum reliquis 
versari quam tui meminisse." 



LONELY— LORD. 209 

Lonely — The trembling knee 

And frantic gape or lonely Niobe, 

Foot, lonely Niobe ! when her lovely young 
"Were dead and gone. Keats, Endymion. 

Long — To one who has been long in city pent,* 
'Tis very sweet to look into the fair 
And open face of heaven, to breathe a prayer 

Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Keats, Sonnets. 

Look — Look ere thou (tap : see ere thou go. 

TusseRj Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, eh. Ivii, 

Look — Nor cast one longing, ling-ring look behind. 

Quay, Elegy in a Country Churchyard. 

Look — Lor>k not thou upon the mine when it is red. when it giveth 

his colour in the cup ... At the last it biteth like a serpent, 
and stingeth like an adder. Prov, xxiii. 31, 32. 

Looked — Or sighed and looked unutterable things. 

Thomson, The Seasons, Winter. 

Looked — No sooner met. but they looked: no sooner looked, but 
they loved; no sooner loved, but they sighed; no sooner sighed, 
but they asked one another the reason. 

Shaks. As You Like It, act v. sc. :-. 

Looker-on — My business in this state 
Made me a looker-on here in Vienna. 

Seaks. Measure for Measure, act v. sc. 1. 

Lord — For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. Htb. xii. 6. 

Lord — Lord Fanny spins a thousand such a day. 

Pope, Horace, bk. ii. sat. i. 1. s. 

Lord — The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away ; blessed be 

the name of the Lord. Job i. a. 

Lurd — Lord', what a doleful place is -his! 
There's neither coal nor candle; 
And nothing I but fishes' tripes 

And greasy guts do handle. t Zachabt Boyd's Bible History. 



As one who long in populous city pen:, 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ix. 1. 445. 
- Apropos of Jonah when swallowed by the whale. I have not seen this 
•- Bible History," Captain R, F. Burton, the African traveller, who has ex- 
amined a copy j tells me that this stanza is not in it, — Ed. 
P 



210 LORD— LOVE. 

Lord — I believe Lord John Russell would undertake to perform 
the operation for the stone — build St. Peter's — or assume (with 
or without ten minutes' notice) the command of the Channel 
fleet ; and no one would discover by his manner that the patient 
had died — the church tumbled down — and the Channel fleet had 
been knocked to atoms. Sydney Smith, Letter to Singleton. 

Lord — Lord of himself, though not of lands ; 
And, having nothing, yet hath all. 

Sir H. Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life. 

Lord — Lord of thy presence, and no land beside. 

Shaks. King John, act i. sc. 1. 

Loss — That loss is common would not make 
My own less bitter — rather more ; 
Too common ! never morning wore 
To evening but some heart did break. Tennyson, Ln Memoriam. 

Lost — "All is lost save honour."* Francis I. 

Lost — Then in a moment she put forth the charm 
Of woven paces and of waving hands, 
And in the hollow oak he lay as dead, 
And lost to life, and use, and name, and fame. 
Then crying, " I have made his glory mine," 
And shrieking out " 0, fool ! " the harlot leapt 
Ad own the forest, and the thicket closed 
Behind her, and the forest echo'd " fool." 

Tennyson, Idylls, closing lines of Vivien, 

Love — Can love be controided by advice? 

Will Cupid our mothers obey ? Gay, Beggar s Opera, act i. sc. 1. 

Love — Love is a sickness full of woes, 
All remedies refusing ; 
A plant that most with cutting grows, 

Most barren with best using. Samuel Daniel, Song. 

Love — Love in a hut, with water and a crust, 

Is — Love, forgive us! — cinders, ashes, dust. Keats, Lamia. 



* It was from the imperial camp near Pavia that Francis I. wrote to his 
mother the memorable letter which has become altered to the form of this 
laconism : " Madame, tout est perdu fors l'honneur." The true expression is, 
" Madame, pour vous faire savoir comme se porte le reste de mon infortune, 
de toutes choses ne m'est demeure que l'honneur et la vie qui est sauve." 
Martin, Histoire de France, torn. viii. 



LOVE. 211 

Love — In peace Love tunes the shepherd's reed ; 
In war he mounts the warrior's steed; 
In halls in gay attire is seen ; 
In hamlets dances on the green. 
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, 
And men below, and saints above ; 
For love is heaven, and heaven is love. 

Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, can. iii. st. 1. 

Love — O love I in such a wilderness as this ! 

Campbell, Gertrude, pt. iii. st. 1. 

Love — Love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. 

Scott, The Lady of the Lake, can. iv. St. 1. 

Love — But there's no love lost between us* 

Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, act i. sc. 4. 

Love — I have heard of reasons manifold 
Why Love 'must needs be blind, 
But this the best of all I hold— 
His eyes are in his mind. 

Coleridge, To a Lady offended by a Sportive Observation. 

Love — It's good to be off wi' the old love 
Before ye be on wi' the new.f 

Love — It's gude to be merry and wise, 
It's gude to be honest and true, 
And afore ye're off wi' the auld love 
It's best to be on wi' the new. 

This is from the old Scotch Song, before Burns; the 
first line forms the Title. 

Love — And all whom I love here, and who love me. 

Dr. Donne, Hymn to Christ, 1. ic. 

Love — Only in love they happy prove 
Who love ivhat most deserves their love. 

Phineas Fletcher, The Sicelides. 

Love — Love will find out the way. Printed in Evans's Old Ballads. 



* A proverbial expression. G-arrick also makes use of it in his Correspon- 
dence. 1759. 

t Quoted from Johnson's " Musical Museum," pt. v. (1798). These lines 
are repeated in " The Bride of Lammermoor," vol. iii. p. 19, by Bucklaw, 
M half-humming, half-speaking the end of an old song," thus — 
" It's best to be off wi' the old love 
Before ye be on wi' the new." 



212 LOVE. 

Love — My merry, merry roundelay 
Concludes with Cupid's curse : 
They that do change old love for new 
Pray gods they change for worse. 

George Peele, Arraignment of Paris, Dyce's Ed, p. 355. 

Love — u Love me little, love me long."* 

Love — The tree of deepest root is found 
Least willing still to quit the ground ; 

'Twas therefore said, by ancient sages, 
That love of life increased with years, i 

So much, that in our latter stages, 

When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages, 
The greatest love of life appears. Mrs. Thrale, Three Warnings. 

Love — The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, 
Keigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart. 

Young, Love of Fame, sat. i. 1. a. 

Love — Alas ! the love of women I it is known 
To be a lovely and a fearful thing. 

Byron, Don Juan, can. ii. st. 199. 

Love — Love on through all ills, and love on till they die. 

Moore, The Light of the Harem. 

Love — Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. 

Shaks. Twelfth Night, act iii. sc. 1. 

Love — And love the offender, yet detest the offence. 

Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 1. 192. 

Love — Love thyself last. Shaks. K. Henry VIII, act iii. sc. 2. 

Love — They sin who tell us love can die ; 

Its holy flame for ever burneth ; 

From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth ; 

Too oft on earth a troublous guest, 

At times received, at times oppressed ; 

It here is tried and purified, 

In Heaven it hath its perfect rest ; 

It soweth here with grief and care, 

But the harvest-time of love is there. 

Southev, Curse of Kehama, can. x. st. 10. 

* This is the title of a modern ballad ; but it is also the title of an old ballad 
printed anonymously on a broadside in black-letter, 1569-70. The burden of 
the old song is, — 

" Love me little, love me long, 
Is the burden of my song." 



LOVE— LUXURY. 213 

Love — Very pleasant hast thou been unto me : thy love to me ivas 
wonderful, passing the love of women. 2 Sam. i. 26. 

Love — Whom he had sensibility to love, 
Ambition to attempt, and skill to win. 

Wordsworth, The Excursion, The Solitary. 

Love — In those blest days when life was new, 

And hope was false, but love was true. Peacock, Newark Abbey. 

Loved — Would they had loved thee less, or feared thee more ! 

Sogers, Italy, 1. lr. 

Loveliness — Loveliness 

Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, 
But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. 

Thomson, The Seasons, Autumn, 1. 204. 

Lovers — Her blue eyes sought the west afar ; 
For lovers love the western star. 

Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, can. iii. st. 24. 

Love's dream — There's nothing half so sweet in life 
As Love s young dream. Moore, Love's Young Dream. 

Lucifer — How art thou fallen from Heaven, Lucifer, son of the 
'morning I Isaiah xiv. 12. 

Lullaby — Lullaby, a name for a cradle-song, which is curious as being 
derived by some from Lilla abi, i.e. " Begone Lillith." Lillith 
was the first wife of Adam, upon whom he begot demons. In 
the demonology of the Middle Ages she was a famous witch, and 
is introduced in the Walpurgis night of Faust by Goethe. Mr. 
Godfrey Turner has written some pretty verses on the word. 
Lunes — In his old lunes again. 

Shaks. Merry Wives of Windsor, act iv. sc. 2. 
Luve — 0, my luve's like a red, red rose 
That's newly sprung in June, 
0, my luve's like the melodie 
That's sweetly played in tune. Burns, Song, A Bed, Bed Bose. 

Luve — I've wandered east, I've wandered west, 
Through mony a weary way; 
But never, never can forget 

The luve of life's young day. Motherwell, Jeannie Morison . 

Luxury — Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which 
hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her 
tail. Hugo, De Animd (quoted by Quarles). 



214 LUXURY— LYRE. 

Luxury — O Luxury ! thou cursed by Heaven 9 s decree. 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, 1. 385. 

Luxury — Weep on, and, as thy sorrows flow, 

I'll taste the luxury of woe. Moore, Anacreontic, 

Luxury — For all their luxury was doing good. 

Garth, Claremont. 1. us. 

Luxury — He tried the luxury of doing good. 

Crabbe, Tales of the Hall, bk. iii. 

Luxury — Blest hour ! it was a luxury — to be ! 

Coleridge, Reflections on having left a place of Retirement. 

Lyre — Who ran 

Through each mood of the lyre, and was master of all. 

Moore, On the Death of Sheridan. 




MA CASSAR— MADNESS. 




ACASSAB — In virtues nothing earthly could sur- 
pass her, ' 
Save thine " incomparahle oil," Macassar! 

• Byron, Don Juan, can. i. st. 17. 

Macduff— Lay on, Macduff; 

And damned he him that first cries, Hold, enough ! 

Shaks. Macbeth, act v. sc. s. 

Machiavel — Nick Machiavel * had ne'er a trick, 
Though he gave his name to our old Nick. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. iii. can. i. 1. 1313. 

Mad — There is a pleasure sure 

In being mad which none but madmen know. 

Drydex, Spanish Friar, act ii. sc. 1. 

Mad — That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true, 'tis pity; 

And pity 'tis 'tis true. Shaks. Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2. 

Madden — Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, 
They rave, recite, and madden round the land. 

Pope, Prologue to Satires, 1. 5. 

Made — Wow ! Jenny, can there greater pleasure be 
Than see sic wee tots toolying at your knee ; 
When a' they ettle at, their greatest wish, 

Is to be made o\ an obtain a kiss? Kamsay, Gentle Shepherd. 

Madness — Though this be ?nadness, yet there's method in it, 

Shaks. Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2. 



* Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of 
his Christian name a synonym for the devil.— Macaulay, Misc. vol. i. p. 29. 
Our authority adds, in a note, " But we believe there is a schism on this sub- 
ject among the antiquaries." 



216 MADNESS— MAIDENS 

Madness — Great wits are sure to madness near allied, 
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.* 

Dkydex, Absalom and Achitophel, pt. i. L i&. 

Madness — Alas ! they had been friends in youth; 
But whispering tongues can poison truth ; 

And constancy lives in realms above ; 
And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; 

And to be wroth with one we love 
Doth work like madness in the brain. 

Coleridge. Christabel, pt. ii. 

Madness — And moody madness laughing wild 

Amid severest woe. Gray, Ode, Eton College. 

Madness — Bring me to the test, 

And I the matter will re-word : which madness 
Would gambol from. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4. 

M&onian — Led by the light of the McEonian star. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. iii. 1. 89. 

Maid-mother — Or the maid-mother by a crucifix, 
In tracks of pasture sunny-warm, 
Beneath branch-work of costly sardonyx, 

Sat smiling, babe in arm. Texnyson, Palace of Art. 

Maiden — In maiden meditation, fancy free. 

Shaks. Midsummer-Night } s Dream, act ii. sc. l. 

Maiden — 'Tis an old tale, and often told ; 
But did my fate and wish agree, 
Ne'er had been read, in story old, 
Of maiden true betrayed for gold, 
That loved, or was avenged, like me. 

Scott, Marmion, can. ii. st. 27. 

Maidens — "When maidens innocently young 

Say often what they never mean, 

Ne'er mind their pretty lying tongue, 

But tent the language 0' their een. Ramsay, Gentle Shepherd. 



"* What thin partitions sense from thought divide. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. i. 1. 226. 
Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. i. 1. 152. 
In Southey's " Common Place Book," first series, p. 437, there is this note : 
— " Seneca said this eighteen centuries ago ; Nullum magnum ingenium absque 
mixtura dementia est ; and Aristotle said, it before him" (but he does not 
mention where). 



MAIN— -MAN. 217 

Main — Be careful still of the main chance. 

Dryden, Persius, sat. vi. 

Hon — Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle 
Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime; 

Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, 
Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime; 

***** 

Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, 
And all save the spirit of man is diorne?* 

Byron, The Bride of Ahiidos, can. i. st. 1. 

Man — Through wearv life this lesson learn. 

That man was made to mourn. Burks, Man was made to mourn. 

Man — A still small voice comes through the wild, 
Like a father consoling his fretful child, 
Which banishes bitterness, wrath and fear, 
Saying, "Man is distant, but God is near." 

Pringle, Afar in the Desert. 

Man — A proper man. as one shall see in a summer's day. 

Shaks. Midsummer-Xighfs Dream, act i. sc. 2. 

Man — A man after his own heart. 1 Sam. xiii. u. 

Man — And all may do what has by man been done. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night vi. 1. 606. 

Man — A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. 

Shaks. King Lear, act iii. sc. 2. 

Man — Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, 
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. 

Shaks. K. John, act iii. sc. 4. 

Man — Awake, my St. John ! leave all meaner things 
To low ambition, and the pride of kings. 
Let us (since life can little more supply 
Than just to look about us and to die) 
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; 
A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. 

Pope, Essay on Man. ep. i. 1. 1. 



* Knovr'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom. 
Where the gold orange grows in the deep thicket's gleom. 
Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, 
And the groves are of laurel, and myrtle, and rose ' 

Goethe, WUhelm JJeister, Carlyle's translation. 



218 MAN. 

Man — Man delights not me, — no, nor woman neither. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2. 

Man — Man goeth to his long home. Eccles. xii. 5. 

Man — A good old man, sir ; lie will be talking. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act iii. sc. 5. 

Man — Happy the man, and happy he alone, 
He who can call to-day his own : 
He who, secure within, can say, 
" To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day." 

Dryden, Imitation of Horace, bk. i. ode xxix. 1. 65. 

Man — Man is one world, and hath 

•Another to attend him. Herbert, Man. 

Man — Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down 
his life for his friends. John xv. 13. 

Man — God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. 

Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act i. sc. 2. 

Man — Man is the creature of circumstance.* 

Robert Owen, The Philanthropist. 

Man — And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than 
one of the wicked. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act i. sc. 2. 

Man — A little round, fat, oily man of God. 

Thomson, Castle of Indolence, can. i. st. 69. 

Man — A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, 

A living dead man. Shaks. Comedy of Errors, act v. sc. 1. 

Man — Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright. 

Psalm xxxvii. 37. 

Man — The mind's the standard of man. 

Watts, Horcs. Lyrica, bk. ii. False Greatness. 

Man — There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely 
evil.f Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, bk. i. 



* Men are sport of circumstances, when 
The circumstances seem the sport of men. 

Byron, Don Jiian, can. v. st. 17. 
t There is a method in man's wickedness : 
It grows up by degrees. 

Beaumont and Fletcher, A King and no King, act v. sc. 4. 
The origin of both of these is most probably the " Nemo repente fait turpis- 
simus " of Juvenal. 



I 



MAN. 219 

Man— Why 

Should every creature drink but I ? 

Why, man of morals, tell me why? Cowley, From Anacreon. 

Man — A man of my kidney. 

Shaks. Merry Wives of Windsor, act iii. sc. 5. 

Man — A man of pleasure is a man of pains. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night viii. 1. 793. 

Man — Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a 
man of letters amongst men of the world. 

Macaelay, Life and Writings of Sir Will. Temple. 

Man — The man of wisdom is the man of years. 

Yorxo, Night Thoughts, night v. 1. 775. 

Man — I was not always a man of woe. 

Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, can. ii. st. 12. 

Man — Auld Xature swears, the lovely dears 
Her noblest work she classes, ! 
Her prentice han she tried on man, 
And then she made the lasses, ! * 

Buexs, Green grow the Rashes. 

Man — Man proposes, but God disposes. f 

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, bk. i. ch. 19. 

Man — Man proposeth, God disposeth. 

Herbert, Jaeula Prudmium. 

Man — Even in a love-song, man should write for men. 

Bulwer, New Timon. 

Man — He was a man, take him for all in cdl, 
I shall not look upon his like again. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. 

Man — Ah ! how unjust to nature, and himself, 
Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man ! 

YoujjGj Night Thoughts, night ii. 1. 112. 



* Alan was made when Nature was 

But an apprentice, but woman when she 
"Was a skilful mistress of her art. 

Cupid's WhvrJgig, 1. 607. 
t Nam homo proponit. sed Deus disponit. — Thomas a Kempis, bk. i. ch. 19. 
This expression is of very great antiquity: it appears in the Chronicle of 
Battle Abbey, p. 27 (Lower"s translation), and in Piers Ploughman's Vision, 
1. 13994. 
A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth his steps. 

Prov. xix. 9. 



220 MAN— MANSIONS. 

\ Man — The man that blushes is not quite a brute. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night vii. 1. 496. 

Man — That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man 
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. 

Shaks. Two Gentlemen of Verona, act iii. sc. i. 

Man — The world was sad — the garden was a wild; 
And Man, the hermit, sighed — till Woman smiled. 

Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, pt. ii. I. 37. 

Man — And he is oft the wisest man 

Who is not wise at all. Wordsworth, The Oak and the Broom. 

Man — But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his 
fig tree. Mic. iv. 4. 

! Man — Man wants but little, nor that little long.* 

Young, Night Thoughts, night iv. 1. us. 

Man — When he is forsaken, 
Withered and shaken, 
What can an old man do but die ? Hood, Ballad. 

Man — If the man who turnips cries 
Cry not when his father dies, 
'Tis a proof that he had rather 
Have a turnip than his father. Johnson, Johnsoniana, Piozzi, 30. 

Mane — And laid my hand upon thy mane, — as I do here. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. 184. 

Mankind — Let observation, with extensive view, 
Survey mankind from China to Peru. 

Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, 1. i. 

Manners — Her manners had not that repose 
Which marks the caste of Vere de Vere. 

Tennyson, Lady Clara Vere de Vere. 

Man's best things — A man's best things are nearest him, 

Lie close about his feet. R. M. Milnes, The Men of Old. 

Man's love — Man's love is of man's life a thing apart : 

'Tis woman's whole existence. Byron, Don Juan, can. i. st. 194. 

Mansions — In my Father's house are many mansions. John xiv. 2. 



* Man wants but little here below, 
Nor wants that little long. 

Goldsmith, The Hermit. 



MA V Y—MA BEY, 221 

Many a time and oft, 
La the Rialto, you. hare rated me. 

Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act i. sc. 3. 

Many — The many still must labour for the one ! 

Byeos, The Corsair, can. i. st - 

Many-headed — Can we descend 30 far beneath ourself 
A - :.> court the people's love or fear. 
Their worst of hate ? . . . . They that are as dust 
Before the whirlwind of our will and power, — 

* * * * * 

T : nany-headed monster. 

Massesgee, The Roman Actor, act iii. sc. 2. 

Marathon — The mountains look on Marathon, 
And Marathon looks on the sea ; 

r ._:_ .:= ng there an hour alone, 

I dreamed that Greece might still he free. 

Bteo^, Don Juan, can, iii. st. m. ver. 3. 

\ — E:> heart was one of those which most enamour us, 

. . : rive, and marble to retain.* Byeo;n~, Beppo, st. 34. 

March — It is the first mild day of March, 
Each minute sweeter than before. 

idsworth, Poems, Domestic Affections. 

March — In life's morning march, when my bosom was young. 

Campbell, The Soldier s Dream, 

March — The stormy March has come at last, 
With wind and clouds and changing skies ; 
I hear the rushing of the blast 

That through the snowy valley flies. Bkyast, March. 

Marcia — The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex. 

Aldiso>\ Cato, act i. sc. 1, 

Marry — Ah me ! when shall I marry me f 
Lovers are plenty, but fail to relieve me. 

Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer. . 

Marry — They that marry ancient people merely in expectation to 

:iem, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut 

; the halter. Fullee, Holy State of Marriage. 

* Fer her my heart is wax, to be mo aided as she pleases, but £n during as 
marble, to retain whatever impression she shall make upon it. 

Ce&va^tes, La GitaniUa. 



222 MABR Y : D—MEASURES. 

Marry *d — Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure. 

Marry d in haste, we may repent at leisure. 

Congreve, Old Batch, act v. sc. >. 

Marshal' st — Thou marshal' st me the way that I was going. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act ii. sc. 1. 

Martial — But he lav like a warrior taking his rest, 
With his martial cloak around him. 

Chas. Wolfe, The Burial of Sir J. Moore. 

Mary — But one thing is needful : and Mary hath chosen that good 
part, which shall not be taken away from her. Luke x. 42. 

Master — Think of that, Master Brook. 

Shaks. Merry Wives of Windsor, act iii. sc. 5. 

Master — And hence one master passion in the breast, 
Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. ii. 1. 131. 

Matchless — Though Britain boasts her British hosts, 
About them all right little care we, 
Give us to guard our native coasts 
The matchless men of Tipperary. 

Tom Davis, Poetry of the Nation Newspaper. 

Mattock — The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, 
The deep, damp vault, the darkness, and the worm. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night iv. 1. 10. 

Maxims — "With a little hoard of maxims, preaching down a 
daughter s heart. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 

May — But winter lingering chills the lap of May. 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, 1. 172. 

Maytime — But all things else about her drawn 
From Maytime and the cheerful dawn. 

Wordsworth, She was a Phantom of Delight. 

Means — And out of good still to find means of evil. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 165. 

Measures — Measures, not men, have always been my mark.* 

Goldsmith, The Good-natured Man. 



* Of this stamp is the cant of not men, but measures; a sort of charm by 
■which some people get loose from every honourable engagement. 

Burke, Present Discontents. 



MED ES— MEMO BY. 223 

— The thing is true., according to the law of the Medes and 
Persians, which altereth not. Dan. vi. 12. 

Medicine — The miserable have no other medicine, 

Bur only hope. Shaks. Measure for Measure, act iii. sc. 1. 

Medicines — If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me 
love him, I'll he hanged. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, parr i. act ii. sc. 2. 

Meed — Without the meed of some melodious tear. 

Milton, Lycidas, 1. u. 

Meek-eyed — The meek-eyed Mom appears, mother of dews. 

Thomson, The Seasons, Summer, 1. 47. 

Meet — We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, 

When such are wanted "Wordsworth, To the Daisy. 

Meeting-points — The meeting-points the sacred hair dissever 
From the fair head, for ever and for ever ! 

Pope, Rape of the Lock, can. iii. 1. 53. 

Melancholy — Placed far amid the melancholy main. 

Thomson, Castle of Indolence, can. i. st. so. 

Me la n eh oly — Moping melancholy, 

And moon-struck madness. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. xi. 1. 485. 

Melting — Albeit unused to the melting mood. 

Sharks, Othello, act v. sc. 2. 

Memory — Dear son of Memory, great heir of Fame. 

Milton, Ep. on Shakespeare. 

Memory — Eememher thee? 

Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat 
In this distracted globe. Eememher thee ? 
Yea. from the table of my memory 
I'll wipe away ah trivial, fond records. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 5. 

Memory — Xext o'er his books his eyes began to roll 
In pleasing memory of all he stole. 

Pope, The Dunciad, bk. i. 1. 12;. 

Memory — While memory watches o'er the sad review 
Of joys that faded like the morning dew. 

Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, pt. ii. 1. 45. 



224 MEMORY—MEN. 

Memory — Meek Walton's heavenly memory. 

Wordsworth, Eccles. Sonnets, pt. iii. Walton's Lives. 

Men — Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. 
Shaks. As You Like It, act iv. sc. 1. 

Men — Nae mair o' that, dear Jenny ; to be free, 
There's some men constanter in love than we. 

Kamsay, Gentle Shepherd. 

Men — For most men (till by losing rendered sager) 

Will back their own opinions by a wager. Byron, Beppo, st. 21. 

Men — Men may rise on stepping-stones 

Of their dead selves to higher things. Tennyson, In Memoriam. 

Men — The King of France, with forty thousand men, 
Went up a hill, and so came down again. 

E. Tarlton, From the Pigges Corantoe, 1642. 

Men — Men have died, from time to time, and worms have eaten 
them ; but not for love. Shaks. As You Like It, act iv. sc. 1. 

Men — Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night iv. 1. 843. 

Men — Men must be taught as if you taught them not, 
And things unknown proposed as things forgot. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. iii. 1. 15. 
Men — As men of inward light are wont 
To turn their optics in upon't. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. iii. can. i. 1. 48i. 

Men — Where nature's end of language is declined, 
And men talk only to conceal their mind* 

Young, Love of Fame, sat. ii. 1. 207. 
Men — The ivorld knows nothing of its greatest men. 

Taylor, P. van Artevelde, pt. i. act i. sc. 5. 

Men — When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they 
will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice, in a contemptible 
struggle. Burke, Present Discontents. 

Men — That all men would be cowards, if they dare,f 
Some men have had the courage to declare. 

Crabbe, Tales, i. 2. 

* The germ of this thought will be found in Jeremy Taylor ; Lloyd, Southey, 
Butler, Young, and Goldsmith have repeated it after him. 

T A saying of Lord Rochester's, a man of whom Horace Walpole said wittily, 
" the museswere pleased to inspire, and ashamed to avow." 



MEN— MERRY. 225 

Men — But love in whispers lets us ken 

That men were made for us, and ice for men. 

Ramsay, Gentle Shepherd. 

Men — Men who their duties know, 

But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain. 

Sir W. Jones, Ode in Imitation of Alcaus. 

Men — 0, what men dare do ! what men may do ! what men daily 
do ! not knowing what they do. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act iv. sc. 1. 

Merchants — Whose merchants are princes. Isaiah xxiii. s. 

Mercies — Are afflictions aught 

But mercies in disguise ? 

Mallet, Amyntor and Theodora, can. iii. 1. 176. 

Mercy — Teach me to feel another's woe, 
To hide the fault I see ; 
That mercy I to others show, 

That mercy show to me. Pope, Universal Prayer. 

! Mercy — Sweet Mercy is nobilitfs true badge. 

Shaks. Titus Andronicus, act i. sc. 2. 

Mercy — Hope withering fled, and mercy sighed farewell ! 

Byrox, The Corsair, can. i. st. 9. 

^Mercy — Yet I shall temper so 

Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most 
Them fully satisfied, and thee appease. 

Miltox, Paradise Lost, bk. x. 1. 77. 

, Merits — Be to her merits hind, 

And to her faults, whate'er they are, he blind. 

Prior, Prol. to the Royal Mischief. 

Mermaid — What things hare we seen 

Done at the Mermaid I heard words that have been 

So nimble and so full of subtile flame, 

As if that every one from whence they came 

Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, 

And had resolved to live a fool the rest 

Of his dull life. F. Beaumoxt, Letter to Ben Jonson. 

Merry — I am never merry when I hear sweet music. 

Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act v. sc. 1. 



226 MERRY— MILK. 

Merry — A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.* 

Ko Chester, On the King. 
Merry — 'Tis good to be merry and ivise,f 
'Tis good to be tender and true, 
'Tis well to be off wi' the auld love 

Before one is on wi' the new. Old Scotch Song, 

Merry — 'Tis good to be merry and wise, 

'Tis good to be lronest and true. I 
Metal — Here's metal more attractive. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Metaphysic — He knew what's what ; and that's as high 

As metaphysic wit can fly. Butler, Hudibras, pt. i. can. i. 1. 149. 

Micher — Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat 
blackberries? Shaks. K. Henry IV, pt. i. act ii. sc. 4. 

Miching — This is miching mallecho; it means mischief. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 
Middle — On his bold visage middle age 
Had slightly pressed its signet sage. 

Scott, The Lady of the Lake, can. i. st. 21. 
Midnight — And bear about the mockery of woe 
To midnight dances and the public show. 

Pope, To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, 1. 57. 

Midnight — \Yhence is thy learning ? Hath thy toil 
O'er books coiisumed the midnight oil?§ 

Gay, Fables, The Shepherd and the Philosopher. 

Mighty — The mighty hopes that make us men. 

Texxysox, In Memoriam, lxxxiv. 
Mile — They have measured many a mile 

To tread a measure with you on this grass. 

Shaks. Love's Labour s Lost, act v. sc. 2. 
Mdk — Yet do I fear thy nature; 

It is too full of the milk of human kindness. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 5. 

* 

* This occurs in a very scandalous poem, by the way ; but the line is so 
happy that it has become a quotation. 

t Cf. Horace, Odes, iv. xii. 28, — Dulce est desipere in loco. 

I Are the sixth and seventh lines of " Hurrah for the Bonnets of Blue," to 
be found at p. -ASS of Robert Chambers's " Collection of Scottish Songs" (1829), 
vol. ii, altered, he says, from a well-known song by Burns. At p. 526 of the 
same volume, the lines are repeated in " Here's a health to them that's 
down." with the other two, which end the song. 

§ The midnight oil was a common phrase; it is used by Shenstone, Cowper, 
and others. 



MILLER— MIND. 227 

Miller— There dwelt a miller, hah and bold, 
Beside the river Lee. 

Ancient Ballads, King and the Mffler* 

Miller — There was & jolly milter o 
Lived on the river Dee, 
He work'd and Bang from morn till night, 
Xo lark more blithe than he. 

BickbrstafPj Lovt in a Village* act i. sc. :. 

Millions — Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute. 

C. C. Pfscknky, when Ambas. to the French Republic, 1796. 

MUUtone — It -ere better for him that a millstone were 

about his neck, and he cast into the sea. Luke xvii. :. 

Mind — How fleet is a glance of the mind I 

Compared with the speed of its flight. 
The tempest itself lags behind. 

And the swift-winged arrows of light. 

Cowpeb, Verses suppe mitten by Alex. Sei 

Mind — Feared, but alone as freemen fear; 
Loved, but as freemen love alone ; 
He waved the sceptre o'er his kind. 
By Nature's first great title — mind. 

Ckoly, Pericles and Aspasia. 

Mind — Time still, as he flies, adds increase to her truth, 
And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth. 

Edw. Moore, The Happy Marriage. 

Mind — A mind not to be changed by place or time. 
The mind is i:s own place, and in itself 
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. 

Mo/ton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. L m 

Mind — My mind to me a kingdom istj 
Such perfect. joy therein I hud 

As far exceeds all earthly bliss 

That God and nature hath assigned. 

Percy. From Bgra's Psalmes, Sonnets, yc, 1588. 



* fee p. 217, " I care for nobody.* 1 

t Mens regnnm bona j : s=id.et. Seneca. Tv. ir.is, act ii. 1. 350. 

My mind :: me an empire is. 

While grace xfibrdeth health. R. Southwell. 1560-1595. 

•• Or else, with a cumber of these patient fools to siug. • My mind to me a 
kingdom is.' while the lank hnnsrry belly barks fox food.*' 

B. Joksox, Ed. M. H. act i. sc. L 



228 MIND—MIBR O B. 

Mind — The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering -wind, 
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. 

Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 1, 121. 

Mind — 0, what a noble mind is here overthrown .' 

The courtier's, soldier's, scholars eye, tongue, sword. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 1. 

Mind — True lore's the gift which God has given 
To man alone beneath the heaven ; 

It is not fantasy's hot fire, 
"Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; 

It liveth not in fierce desire, 
With dead desire it doth not die; 
It is the secret sympathy, 
The silver link^ the silken tie, 
Which heart to heart, and mind to -mind, 
In body and in soul can bind. 

Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel, can. v. st. 13. 

Mind — Were I so tall to reach the pole, 
Or grasp the ocean with my span, 
I must be measured by my soul : 

The mind's the standard of the man* Watts, False Greatness. 

Minds — Minds that have nothing to confer 
Find little to perceive. 

Wordsworth, Poems founded on the Affections, xvi. 

Mine — Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own ? 

Matt. xx. 15. 

Mingles — Yet e'en in transitory life's late day 
That mingles cdl my brown with sober gray. 

Cowtee, Tirocinium, 1. 153. 

Minnows — Hear you this Triton of the minnows? 

Shaks. Coriolanus, act iii. sc. 1. 

Minstrels — A brood of Nature s minstrels chirp and fly, 
Glad as the sunshine and the laughing sky. 

Johx Clare, Sonnet, Thrush's Nest, 

Mirror — To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 



* The mind is the proper judge of the man. 

Seneca, Oh a Happy Life, chap. i. 



MIR TH—MONA R CH. 229 

Mirth — A merrier man 

Within the limit of becoming mirth 
I never spent an hour's talk withal. 

Siiaks. Loves Labour's Lost, act ii. sc. 1. 

Miserable — To be weak is miserable, 

Doing or suffering. MnzroN, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 157. 

Misery — suffering, sad humanity ! 
ye afflicted ones, who lie 
Steeped to the lips in misery, 
Longing, and yet afraid to die, 

Patient though sorely tried ! Longfellow, The Goblet of Life. 

Mist — When Ilion like a mist rose into towers* 

Tennyson, Tithonus. 

Mist — Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power. 
Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. ii. st. 2. 

Mistress — And mistress of herself, though china fall. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. ii. 1. 268. 

Mockery — Unreal mockery, hence ! Shaks. Macbeth, act in. sc. 4. 

Modesty — Faith, on whose breast the loves repose, 
Whose chain of flowers no force can sever, 
And Modesty, who, ichen she goes, 

Is gone lor ever ! W. S. Landor, Sixteen. 

Modesty — Thy modesty's a candle to thy merit. 

Fielding, Tom Thumb, act i. sc. 2. 

^ Moment — Live while you live, the epicure would say, 
And seize the pleasures of the present day; 
Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries, 
And give to God each moment as it flies. 
Lord, in my view let both united be ; 
I live in pleasure when I live to Thee. 

P. Doddridge, Epigram on his Family Motto. f 

Monarch — I am monarch of all I survey : 
My right there is none to dispute. 

Cowper, Verses supposed to be written by Alex. Selkirk. 



A fabric huge 
Rose like an exhalation. Miltox, Paradise Lost, b. i. 1. 710. 
• Dum viyimus YiYanms."— From Ortix's Life of Doddridge. 



230 MONKS— MO OX LIGHT. 

Monks — I envy them — those -monks of old, 

Their books they read, and their beads they told; 
To human softness dead and cold, 

And all life's vanity. G. P. K. James, 77^- Monks of Old. 

Monster — There's no such thing in nature, and voir 11 draw 
A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw. 

Sheffield (Duke of Buckingham), Essay on Poetry. 

Monster — beware, my lord, of jealousy ; 

It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock 
The meat it feeds on. Shaks. Othello, act iii. sc. s. 

Monster — The many-headed monster of the pit.* 

Po?E,Ep. to Dr. Arbuthnot, bk. ii. ep. i. 1. 304. 

Month — A little month, ere yet those shoes were old. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. 

Months — It is unseasonable and unwholesome, in all months that 
have not an r in their name, to eat an oyster. 

Butler. Dyets Dry Dinner. 1599. 

Mood — In listening mood she seemed to stand, 
The guardian naiad of the strand. 

Scott, The Lady of the Lake, can. i. st. i:. 

Moon — I saw the new moon, late yestreen, 
WT the auld moon in her arms. 

From the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Sir Patrick Spots. 

Moon — " The man in the moon." This saying is of very ancient 
date; it occurs in a song entered on the books of the Stationer?" 
Company in 1588, and is alluded to in Dekker's comedy Old 
Fortunatus ', the song is called Who's the Fool now? and 
begins, — "I saw the man in the moon." 

Moon — The moon followed by a single star, like a lady by her page. 

B. Disraeli, Coningsby. 

Moon — He made an instrument to know 
If the 7noon shine at full or no. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. ii. can. iii. 1. 26i. 

Moonlight — How sweet tlie ?noonlight sleeps upon this bank ! 

Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act v. sc. i. 



See " Many headed" ante. 



MOOR— MOUNTAINS. 231 

Moor — The gentle Lady married to the Moor, 
And heavenly Una with her milk-white lamb. 

Wordsworth, Personal Talk, st. 3. 

Moral — All honest men, whether counts or cobblers, are of the 
same rank, if classed by moral distinctions. 

Sydney Smith, Ed. Rev. 1823. 

More — There lives more faith in honest doubt, 
Believe me, than in half the creeds. 

Texxysox, In Memoriam, can. xcv. 

Morn — The morn, in russet mantle clad, 

Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 1. 

Morn — Another morn 

Risen on mid-noon. Miltox, Paradise Lost, bk. v. 1. 310; 

Wordsworth, The Prelude, bk. vi. 

Morn — What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that, 
Love- darting eyes, or tresses like the morn ? 

Miltox, Comus, 1. 752. 

Morning — When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons 
of God shouted for joy. Job xxxviii. 7. 

Most — Learn thou this most infallible of rules, 
The "taste" of Fashion is the law of fools. 

Haix Friswell, New Rosciad. 

Most — The same old toil — no end — no aim ! 
The same vile babble in my ears ; 
The same unmeaning smiles ; the same 
Most miserable dearth of tears. 

Owex Meredith, Wanderer, p. e?. 

Motes — The gay motes that people the sunbeams. 

Miltox, 11 Penseroso, 1. s. 
Mother — I arose a mother in Israel. Judges v. 7. 

Mother — A mother is a mother still, 

The holiest thing alive. Colertdge, The Three Graves. 

Motley — Motley s the only wear. 

Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7. 

Mountains — Mountains interposed 

Make enemies of nations, who had else, 
Like kindred drops, been mingled into one. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. ii. The Timepiece. 



232 MO UN TAINS— MURMURS. 

Mountains — See the mountains kiss high heaven, 
And the waves clasp one another ; 
~No sister flower would be forgiven 

If it disdain'd its brother. Shelley, Love's Philosophy. 

Mountain-tops — He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find 
The loftiest peaks most wrapped in clouds and snow. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iii. st. 45. 

Mounting — And there was mounting in hot haste. 

Ibid. can. iii. st. 25. 

Mourned — When Dido found iEneas would not come, 
She mourned in silence, and was di do dum. 

Porson, Facetiae Cantabrigienses. 

Mouth — Her cheeks sae ruddy, an' her een sae clear ; 
An' oh ! her mouth's like ony hinny pear. 

Allan Ramsay, Gentle Shepherd. 

Mouth — Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee. Luke xix. 22. 

Mouths — Your name is great 

In mouths of wisest censure. Shaks. Othello, act ii. sc. 3. 

Multitude — The multitude is always in the wrong.* 

Roscommon, Translated Verse. 

Murder — That matter of the murder is hushed up. 

Shelley, Cenci, act i. sc. 1. 

Murder — One to destroy is murder by the law, 
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; 
To murder thousands takes a specious name, 
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. 

Young, Love of Fame, sat. vii. 1. 55. 

Murder — One murder made a villain, 

Millions a hero. Princes were privileged 
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. 

B. Porteus, Death, 1. 154. 

Murder — For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak 

With most miraculous organ. Shaks. Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2. 

Murmurs — In hollow murmurs died away. 

Collins, The Passions, 1. 68. 



* Probably equally true as the celebrated " Vox pojmli, vox Dei," a proverb 
quoted by William of Malmesbury in the twelfth century, the author of which 
is not known. 



M URM UR S—M U TE. 233 

Murmurs — He murmurs near the running brooks 
A music sweeter than their own. 

Wordsworth, A Poet's Epitaph, st. 10. 

Music — Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, 
To soften rocks, or bend the knotted oak. 

Concrete, The Mourning Bride, act i. sc. 1. 

Music — When Music, heavenly maid, was young, 

While vet in early Greece she sung. Collins, The Passions, 1. 1. 

Music — The music in my heart I bore, 
Long after it was heard no more. 

Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper. 

Music — The still, sad music of humanity. 

Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey. 

Music — Music! sphere-descended maid, 

Friend of pleasure, wisdom's aid ! Collins, The Passions, 1. 95. 

Music — Music, when soft voices die, 
Vibrates in the memory : 
Odours, when sweet yiolets sicken, 
Live within the sense they quicken. Shelley, To . 

Music — When griping grief the heart doth wound, 
And doleful dumps the mind oppress, 
Then music, with his silver sound 
With speedy help doth lend redress. 

Shaks. Borneo and Juliet, act iv. sc. 5. 
Music — Xot a dish removed 

But to the music, not a drop of wine 
Mixt with the water without harmony.* 

Music's tongue — Music's golden tongue 

Flattered to tears this aged man and poor. 

Keats, Eve of St. Agnes, st. 3. 

Musing — When 'musing on companions gone, 

We doubly feel ourselves alone. Scott, Marmion, introd. can. ii. 

Mute — Call it not vain ; — they do not err 
Who say that, when the poet dies, 
Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, 
And celebrates his obsequies. 

Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, can. v. st. i. 

* The practice is alluded to by Gossen, in his Apologie of the School of 
Abuse (15S6;. 



234 M.UTTOXS— MYSTERY. 

Mute — Mute creation* 

Muttons — To return to our muttons, \ 

Rabelais, bk. i. chap. i. note 2. 
My — With filial confidence inspired, 

Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, 
And smiling- say, "My Father made them all I 19 

Cowper, The Task, bk. v. Winter Morning Walk. 

My — A horse ! a horse ! My kingdom for a horse ! 

Shaks. K. Richard III, act v. sc. 4. 
My — Thy lips were on thy lesson, but 

My lesson icas in thee. Motherwell, Jeannie Morison. 

My — I thought, as day was breaking, 
My little girls were leaking, 
And smiling, and making 

A prayer at home for me. Thackeray, Miscel. vol. i. p. 32. 
My — My native land — good night. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. i. st. 13. 

My — My sentence is for open war. 

aIiltox, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. a. 

Mystery — Pluck out the heart of my mystery. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Mystery — Within that awful volume lies 

The mystery of mysteries ! \ Scott, The Monastery, vol. i. ch. 12. 



* A term invented by Lord Erskine instead of " brute creation." 

t " Revenons a nos moutons," a proverb taken from the old French farce of 

Pierre Pat dm. 

I This is printed in Lord Byron's works (Paris ed., 1826), and entitled 

" Verses found in Lord Byron's Bible. " 




NA KED—NA TUBE, 




AKED 



•Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but 
himself, 
That hideous sight, — a naked human hearf. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night iii. 1. 226. 



Naked — And thus I clothe my naked villainy 
With old odd ends, stol'n out of holy writ, 
And seem a saint when most I play the devil. 

Shaks. K. Richard III, act i. sc. 



Name — My name is Legion. 



Mark 



Narrow — One science only will one genius fit; 
So vast is art, so narrow human wit. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. i. 1. 60. 

Nation — A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a 
strong nation. Isaiah lx. 22. 

Nature — Nature denied him much, 

But gave him at his birth what most he values — 
A passionate love for music, sculpture, painting, 
Toy poetry, the language of the gods, 
For all things here, or grand or beautiful, 
A setting sun, a lake amid the mountains, 
The light of an ingenuous countenance, 
And what transcends them all, a noble action. 

Rogers, Italy, A Farewell. 

Nature — Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night : 
God said, " Let Xewton be !" and all was light. 

Pope, Epit. intended for Sir I. Newton. 



236 NATURE— NAZARETH. 

Nature — Now, by two-headed Janus, 

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. 

Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act i. sc. 1. 

Nature — Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part; 
Nature in him was almost lost in art. 

Collins, To Sir T. Hanmer on his Edition of Shakespeare. 

Nature — Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. 

Churchill, The Candidate, 21. 
Nature — Knowing that Nature never did betray 

The heart that loved her. Wordsworth, Tint em Abbey. 

Nature — One touch of Nature makes the whole world kin.* 

Shaks. Troilus and Cressida, act iii. sc. 3. 

Nature — True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, 
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. ii. 1. 97. 

Nature — All nature wears one universal grin. 

Fielding, Tom Thumb. 

Nature's comment — Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows 
That for oblivion take their daily birth 
From all the fuming vanities of earth. 

Wordsworth, Sky Prospect from the Plains of France. 

Nature's creating — Whoe'er amidst the sons 

Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue 
Displays distinguished merit, is a noble 
Of Nature' s own creating. Thomson, Coriolanus, act iii. sc. 3. 

Nature's hand — By forms unfashioned/res/z t /ro??i Nature's hand. 

Goldsmith, Traveller, 1. 330. 

Nature' s journeymen — I have thought some of Nature's journey- 
men had made men, and not made them well, they imitated 
humanity so abominably. f Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Nature's teachings— -Go forth under the open sky, and list 

To Nature's teachings. Bryant, Thanatopsis. 

Nazareth — Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? 

John i. 46. 



* This quotation is almost always used in a different sense to that which 
the poet intended, as may be seen from the context. 

t A similar thought is found in Burns, when he says of Nature, " Her prentice 
hand she tried on man." 



NECESSITY— NEVER. 237 

Necessity — To make a virtue of necessity. 

Chaucer, Squiers Tale, pt. ii. Shaks. Two Gentlemen 
of Verona, act iv. sc. 1. Rabelais, bk. i. ch. 2. 
Deyden, Palamon and Ar cite, 1. 1035. King, Orp. and 
Eary. 1. 193. 

Necessity — Spirit of Xature ! all-sufficing power. 

Necessity ! thou mother of the world ! Shelley, Mab, vi. 

Necessity — Necessity invented stools, 

Convenience next suggested elbow chairs. 

Cowper, Task, bk. i. 1. m. 
Necessity' 's pinch — And choose 

To wage against the enmity 0' the air ; 

To be a comrade with the wolf and owl, — 

Necessity's sharp pinch! Shaks. King Lear, act ii. sc. 4. 

Nectar — I ne'er could any lustre see 
In eyes that would not look on me ; 
I ne'er saw nectar on a lip 
But where my own did hope to sip. 

Sheridax, The Duenna, act i. sc. 2. 

Neglected — Neglected Tray and Ponto lie. Prior, Alma, can. 1. 
Neither — 'Tis neither here nor there. Shaks. Othello, act iv. sc. 3. 

Nestor — Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. 

Shaks. Merchant of Venice, act i. sc. 1. 

Nether — His heart is as firm as a stone, yea, as hard as a piece of 

the nether millstone. . Job xli. 24. 

Nettle — Tender-handed stroke a nettle, 
It will sting you for your pains ; 
Grasp it like a man of mettle, 
And it soft as silk remains. 

A. Hill, Verses written on a Window. 

Never — War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; 

Honour but an empty bubble ; 

Never ending, still beginning, 

Fighting still, and still destroying. 

Drydex, Alexander s Feast, 1. 99. 
Never — Had we never loved sae kindly, 

Had we never loved sae blindly, 

Never met, or never parted, 

We had ne'er been broken-hearted. 

Burxs, Song, Ae Fond Kiss. 



238 NEVER— NOBLE. 

Never — Quoth the raven, "Never more /" E. A. Poe, The Raven. 
Nice — Dismiss poor Harry, be replies, 
Some people are more nice than wise. 

Cowper, On Mutual Forbearance. 
Night — How beautiful is night ! 
A dewy freshness fills the silent air ; 
Ko mist obscures,- nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, 

Breaks the serene of heaven : 
In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine 
Eolls through the dark-blue depths ; 
Beneath her steady ray 
The desert-circle spreads, 
Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. 

How beautiful is night ! Southey, Thalaba. 

Night — This sweaty haste 

Doth make the night joint -labourer with the day. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 1. 

Nightingale — It is the hour when from the boughs 
The nightingale } s high note is heard ; 
It is the hour when lovers' vows 

Seem sweet in every whispered word. Byrox, Parasina, st. i. 

Nightingale — While that winged song, the restless nightingale 
Turns her sad heart to music. Beddoes, Bride's Tragedy. 

Ninth — But, in the way of bargain, mark ye me, 
I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act iii. sc. 1. 

Niobe — Like Niobe, all tears. Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. 

Niobe — The Niobe of nations ! there she stands. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. 79. 

No — No more of that, Hal, an thou Lovest me. 

Shaks. King Henry IV, part i. act ii. sc. 4. 

No — No pent-up Utica contracts your powers/ 

But the whole boundless continent is yours. 

Sewall, Epilogue to Cato.* 
Noble — TTe'll shine in more substantial honours, 

And to be noble ice II be good.j- Percy, Winefreda. 

* Written for the Bovr Street Theatre. Portsmouth, X.E. 
t Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 

'Tis only noble to be good. 

Tkhkyson, Lady Clara Vere deVere. 



NORVAL— NOTHING. 239 

Norval — My name is Norval; on the Grampian hills 

My father feeds his flocks. J. Home, Douglas, act ii. sc. 1. 

Nose — Xose, nose, nose, nose, 

And who gave thee that jolly red nose ? 

From Song No. 7, Rave?iscroft's " Deutoromela" 1609. 

Nose — Though 'tis confess' d that the prejudice goes 
Very much in the favour of wearing a nose. 

George Colmax, Songs. 

Not — Thou troublest me; I am not in the vein. 

Shaks. K. Richard III, act iv. sc. 2. 

Not — Not what we ivish, but what we want. J. Merrick, Hymn. 

Not — The buried are not lost, but gone before.* 

E. Elliot, The Excursion. 

Not — Not means, but blunders round about a meaning. 

Drydex, McFlecknoe. 

Note — "YTal'r, my boy," replied the captain, "in the Proverbs of 

Solomon you will find the following words : ' May we ne'er want 

a friend nor a bottle to give him ! ' When found, make a note of" 

Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, chap. xv. 

Notes — In notes by distance made more sweet. 

Collins, The Passions, 1. eo. 

Notes — Hear, land o' cakes and brither Scots, 
Frae Maidenkirk to John o' Groats, 
A duel's among ye takin' notes, 

And faith he'll prent it. Burns, On Captain Grose. 

Nothing — Nothing, thou elder brother even to shade, 
That hadst a being ere the world was made, 
And, well-fixed, art alone of ending not afraid. 

Eochester, Poem oil Nothing. 

Nothing — Nothing went unrewarded but desert. 

Drydex, Absalom and Achiiophel. 

Nothing — He touches nothing but he adds a charm. f 

Fexelox, Eulogy on Cicero. 



* Not dead, but gone before. Rogers, Human Life. 

t Nullum teiigit quod non vrnavit. 

Johxsox, Epitaph on Goldsmith. See note, p. 5. 



240 NO W—NYMPHOLEPSY. 

Now — Xothing is there to come, and nothing past, 
But an eternal now does always last.* 

Cowley, Bavideis, vol. i. bk. i. p. 302. 

Numbers — As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, 
I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. 

Pope, Epistle to Br. Arbuthnot, 1. 127. 

Nun — The holy time is quiet as a nun 
Breathless with adoration. 

Wordsworth, Miscellaneous Sonnets, pt. i. xxx. 

Nunnery — Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, 
That from the nunnery 
Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind 
To war and arms I fly. Loyelace, To Lucasta. 

Nunriry — Yee blushing virgins happie are 
In the chaste nunn'ry of her brests, 
For hee'd prophane so chaste a faire 
Who ere should call them Cupids nests. 

Habixgtox, Castara. To Boses in the Bosome of Castara. 

Nurse — The land of scholars, and the nurse of arms. 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, 1. 356. 

Nurses — So terrible his name, 

The giant nurses frighten children with it. 

Fielding, Tom Thumb. 

Nurses — It was enough to say, Here's Essex come, 
And nurses still' d their children with the fright. 

Baxks, Earl of Essex. 

Nymph — Nymph, in thy orisons 

Be all my sins remembered. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 1. 

Nymph — A nymph of every charm possessed 
That native virtue gives 
Within my bosom all confessed 

In bright idea lives. W. Falconer, The Fond Lover. 

Nymph — He alone won't betray in whom none will confide, 
And the nymph may be chaste that has never been tried. 

Coxgreve, Love for Love, Song. 

Nympholepsy — The nympholepsy of some fond despair. 

Byrox, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. 115. 



* One of our poets (which is it ?) speaks of an eternal now. — Southey's 
Doctor, p. 63, 



OATH— OCEAN, 




ATH — He that imposes an oath makes it, 
Not he that for convenience takes it. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. ii. can. ii. 1. s;;. 

Oath — A good mouth-filling oath, 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act iii. sc. i. 



Oak — All is not oak, and oak is rent. 



Scott, Bokeby, 



Obliged — Obliged by hunger and request of friends. 

Pope, Ep. to Dr. Arbathnot, 1. 44. 

Observations — To observations which ourselves we make, 
"We grow more partial for the observers sake. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. i. 1. n. 

Occasion — Occasion needs but fan them and they flame. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. v. 

Ocean — Oh, thou vast Ocean ! ever-sounding sea ! 
Thou symbol of a drear immensity ! 
Thou thing that kindest round the solid world 
Like a huge animal, B. W. Procter, Address to the Ocean. 

Ocean — And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy 
Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be 
Borne, like thy bubbles, onward. 

Byro>", Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. 1S4. 

Ocean — Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies : 
Metbinks her patient sons before me stand 
"Where the broad ocean leans against the land. 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, 1. 232. 

R 



242 OCEAJS—OXE. 

Ocean's mane — He laid his hand upon " the Oceans 'mane,'' 
And played familiar with his hoary locks.* 

Poelok, The Course of Time, bk. iv. 1. 689. 

O'er — O'er the hills and far away. 

Gay, Beggar's Opera, act i. sc. i. 
Off — Off with his head ! so much for Buckingham. 

K. Richard III, act iv. sc. s.f 

Offspring — Hail, holy Light! offspring of Heaven firstborn. 

Melton, Paradise Lost, bk. iii. 1. i. 
• Oft— Oft in the stilly night, 

Ere slumber's chain has bound me, 
Fond memory brings the light 

Of other days around me. Moore, Oft in the Stilly Night. 

Oft — And oft repeating, they believe 'em true. Peioe, Alma, can. s. 

Old — Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning, die, 
But leave us still our old nobility. 

Lord J. Mabwbbs, England's Trust, 1. 227. 

Old — Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old 
shoes ; they were easiest for his feet. 

J. Seed en, Table Talk, Friends.. 

Old — Old icood to bum ! Old wine to drink ! Old friends to trust ! 
Old authors to read! I 

One — One God, one law, one element, 
And one far-off divine event 
To which the whole creation moves. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, conclusion. 

One — Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have 
abundance ; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even 
that which he hath. Matt. xxv. 29. 



* And I have loved thee. Ocean 1 

And laid my hand upon thy mane. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. 184. 

* Gibber, altered. 

% Alonzo of Aragon was vront to say, in commendation of age, that age ap- 
peared to be best in these four things. — Melchiob, Floresta Espanolo de Apo- 
teghmas Sentenaas, See. II. i. 20." 

I love everything that's old : old friends, old times, old manners, old books, 
old wine.— Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, act i. sc. 1. 



OXE— OYSTER. 243 

One — Named softly as the household name of one whom God hath 
taken. Browning, Cooper's Grave. 

One — One kind wish before we part. Dodsley, The Parting Kiss. 

Opinions — How long halt ye between two opinions? 

1 Kings xviii. 21. , 

Oppression — Hear this, ye Senates, hear this truth sublime : 
He who allows oppression shares the crime. 

Darwix, Botanical Monitor. 

Optics — But optics sharp it needs, I ween, 
To see what is not to be seen. 

J. Trumbull, McEingal, can. i. 1. 67. 

Orators — Very oood orators: when they are out, they will spit. 

Shaks. As You Like It, act iv. sc. i< 

Order — Order is Heaven's first law. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. 49. 

ioxy — Orthodoxy is my doxy — Heterodoxy is another -man's 
.///.* Byrox, Letters. 

Othello s occupation — Othello's occupation's gone. 

Shaes. Othello, act iii. sc. 3. 

Out-Herods — It out-Herods Herod. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Out — Out went the taper as she hurried in; 
Its little smoke in pallid moonshine died. 

Keats, St. Agnes' Eve. ■ 

.:rd — What outward form and feature are 
He guesseth but in part ; 
But what within is good and fair 
He seeth with the heart. 

Coleridge, To a Lady offended by a Sportive Observation . 

Oicl — St. Agnes' Eve — ah, bitter cold, it was ! 
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold. Keats, St. Agnes' Eve. 

Oyster — Why, then the world's mine oyster, 

Which I with sword will open. 

Sbae.$. Merry Wives of Windsor, act ii. sc. 2. 



* I have heard frequent use (said the late Lord Sandwich, in a debate on 
the Test Laws,) of the words Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy ; but I confess ray- 
self at a loss to know precisely what they mean. " Orthodoxy, my lord," (said 
Bishop Warbnrton in a whisper) — u Orthodoxy is my doxy, — Heterodoxy is 
another man's doxy." — Priestley's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 372. 




PACK— PAINT. 




ACK — He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his 
pack. 
For he knew, when he pleased, he could whistle 
them back. Goldsmith, Retaliation, 1. 107. 

Pageant — Hence, pageant history! hence, gilded 
cheat ! 
Swart planet in the universe of deeds ! Keats, Endymion. 

Paid — He is well paid that is well satisfied. 

Shaks. Merchant of Venice, act iv. sc. 1. 

Pain — Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! 
Ah, fields beloved in vain ! 
Where once my careless childhood strayed, 
A stranger yet to pain. 

Gray, On a distant Prospect of Eton College. 

Pain — To each his sufferings ; all are men, 
Condemned alike to groan ; 
The tender for another s pain, 

The unfeeling for his own. Ibid. 

Pain — The labour we delight in physics pain. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act ii. sc. 3. 

Pains — There is a pleasure in poetic pains 
Which only poets know. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. ii. The Timepiece. 

Paint — He best can paint them who shall feel them most. 

Pope, Elo'isa to Abelard, last line. 



PAINTED— PANGS. 245 

Painted — Till now alone the mighty nations strove, 
The rest at gaze without the lists did stand : 
And threat' ning France, plac'd like & painted Jove, 
Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand. 

Deydex, Annus Mirabilis, st. 39. 

Painting — Is she not more than painting can express, 
Or youthful poets fancy when they love ? 

X. Howe, The Fair Penitent, act ii. sc. 1. 

Pale — "Why so pale and wan, fond lover ? 
Prithee, why so pale ? 
Will, when looking well can't move her, 
Looking ill prevail? 
Prithee, why so pale ? Sib J. Suckling, Song. 

Pale — Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget 
The pale, unripened beauties of the Xorth. 

Addison, Cato, act i. sc. 4. 

Palinurus — \ E'en Palinurus nodded at the helm. 

Pope, The Duneiad, bk. iv. 1. gu. 

Palm — Xo hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung ;* 

Like some tall palm, the mystic fabric sprung. 

Majestic silence ! ' Hebee, Palestine. 

Palpable— X hit, a very palpable hit ! Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. 2. 

Palpable — The palpable obscure. 

Miltox, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. I. 406. 

Palsied — Palsied eld. Shaks. Measure for Measure, act iii. sc. 1. 

Pangs — Phillips, whose touch harmonious could remove 
The pangs of guilty power or hapless love, 
Rest here, distressed by poverty no more ; 
Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before ; 
Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine 
Till angels wake thee with a note like thine. 

Johnson, Epitaph on Claudius Phillips, the Musician. 



* Altered in later editions to — 

No workmen steel, no ponderous axes rung : 
Like some tall palm, the noiseless fabric sprung. 
Cowper also has — 

Silently as a dream the fabric rose, 

No sound of hammer or of saw was there. 

The Task, bk, v. The Winter Morning Walk. 



246 PANJANDRUM— PARSON. 

Panjandrum — So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf, 
to make an apple-pie ; and at the same time, a great she-bear, 
coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. " What ! no 
soap ? " So he died, and she very imprudently married the 
barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Job- 
lillies, and the Garyulies, and the grand Panjandrum himself, 
with the little round button at top ; and they all fell to playing 
the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the 
heels of their boots. — Samuel Foote. Given by him to Macklin 
on his Lecture on Memory, as a test for repetition after once 
reading. (Foster's Life of Foote), 

Pansies — There's rosemary : that's for remembrance ; . . . and 
there is pansies : that's for thoughts. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iv. sc. 5. 

Paper-mill — Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of 
the realm, in erecting a grammar-school : and whereas, before, 
our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, 
thou hast caused printing to be used; and, contrary to the King, 
his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. 

Shaks. K. Henry VI, part ii. act iv. sc. 7. 

Parallel — None but himself can be his parallel.* 

Louis Theobald, The Double Falsehood. 

Parchment — Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an 
innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, 
being scribbled o'er, should undo a man ? 

Shaks. K. Henry VI, part ii. act iv. sc. 2. 

Parent — These are thy glorious works, Parent of good ! 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. v. 1. 153. 

Parents — The sons of parents passed into the skies. 

Cowper, On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture. 

Parish — The why is plain as way to parish church. 

Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7. 
Parritch — The healsome parritch, chief 0' Scotia's food. 

Burns, Cotter s Saturday Night, st. xi. 

Parson — There goes the parson, illustrious spark ! 
And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk ! 

Cowper, On Observing some Names of Little Note. 

* Quaeris Alcidse parem ? 
Nemo est nisi ipse. 

Seneca, Hercules Furens, act i. sc. 1. 



PARSON- PAS SET H. 247 

Parson — Is there a parson much bemused in beer, 
A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, 
A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross, 
Who pens a stanza when he should engross ? 

Pope, Ep. to Dr. Arbuthnot, 1. 15. 

Parting — Good night, good night ! parting is such sweet sorrow, 
That I shall say good night till it be morrow. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 2. 

Partington. — In the winter of 1824 there set a great flood upon the 
town of Sidmouth ; the tide rose to a terrible height. In the midst 
of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived 
upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house, with mop 
and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, 
and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic 
was roused, Mrs. Partington's spirit was up; but I need not 
tell you the contest was unequal : the Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. 
Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she 
should not have meddled with a tempest. 

Sydney Smith, Speech at Taunton, 1832. 

Partitions — What thin partitions sense from thought divide!* 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. i. 1. 226. 

Parts — All are but parts of one stupendous whole, 
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. Ibid. 1. 267. 

Party — Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, 
And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. 

Goldsmith, Retaliation, 1. 31. 

Passage — E'en like the passage of an angeVs tear 

That falls through the clear ether silently. Kjbats, Sonnets. 

Passages — Rich windows that exclude the light, 

And passages that lead to nothing. Gray, A Long Story. 

Passeth — But I have that within which passeth show ; 
These but the trappings and the suits of woe. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. 



* See Dryden, ante, Madness. " Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura 
dementiae fait." — Sexeca, De Tranquillitate Animi, xvii. 12, quotes this from 
Aristotle, who gives as one of his Problemata (xxx. 1), An* ti iravrs $ cktoi tts^tto* 
ysyovartv avfye; y Kara, <pi,7\o<ro<picxv q TroTvTiKnv q Tronjcnv r\ Ttyjictt; <palvovTca (jaXctyXoXtKOi 

ovre;. 



248 PASSING— PA TIENCE. 

Passing — My story being done, 

She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : 

She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 

? Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful; 

She wished she had not heard it : yet she wished 

That heaven had made her such a man. 

Shaes. Othello, act i. sc. 3. 
Passing — And, like a passing thought, she fled 

In light away. Burns, The Vision. 

Passion — The ruling passion, be it what it will, 
The ruling passion conquers reason still. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. iii. 1. 153. 

Past — Iago. What ! are you hurt, lieutenant ? 

Cassio. Ay, past all surgery. Shaks. Othello, act ii. sc. 3. 

Patches — A king of shreds and patches. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4. 

Pate — You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : 

Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.* Pope, Epigram. 

Paths — Thus hand in hand through life we'll go ; 
Its checkered paths of joy and woe 
With cautious steps we'll tread. 

Nat. Cotton, The Fireside, st. 13. 

Paths — Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are 
peace. Prov. iii. 17. 

Patience — Patience and sorrow strove 

Who should express her goodliest. Shaks. K. Lear, act iv. sc 3. 

Patience — 'Tis all men's office to speak patience 

To those that wring under the load of sorrow; 
But no man's virtue, nor sufficiency, 
To be so moral, when he shall endure 
The like himself. Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act v. sc. 1. 

Patience — Patience! why, patience wanted a nightingale! pa- 
tience waited, and the egg sang ! D. Jerrold, Hermit. 

Patience — The worst speak something good ; if all want sense, 
God takes a text, and preacheth Patience. 

G. Herbert, The Church Porch. 



* His wit invites you by his looks to come ; 
But when you knock it never is at home. Cowper, Conversation. 



PA TIENT—PEA CE, 249 

Patient — Therein the patient 

Must minister to himself. Shaks. Macbeth, act v. sc. 3. 

Patriot— France at our doors, he sees no danger nigh, 
But heaves for Turkey's woes th' impartial sigh ; 
A steady patriot of the icorld alone, 
And friend of every country — but his own. 

Ca:n~:ni>*g, Anti-Jacobin, p. 229. 

Pause — Pause not to dream of the future before us; 
Pause not to weep the wild cares that come o'er us ! 

Mrs. Frances Osgood. 

Peace — Where peace 

And rest can never dwell, hope never comes 

That comes to all. _ Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i, 1. 65. 

Peace — To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and 
first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens. 

H. Lee, December, 1799. Marshall's Life of Washington, 

Peace — He gave his honours to the world again, 
His blessed part to Heaven, and slept in peace. 

Shaks. K. Henri/ VIII, act iv. sc. 2. 

Peace— Peace hath her victories 

Xo less renowned than War. Miltox, Sonnets, son. xvi. 

Peace— I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curled 
Above the green elms that a cottage was near, 

And I said, "If there's peace to be found in the world, 
A heart that was humble might hope for it here/' 

Moore, Ballad Stanzas. 

Peace— Re makes a solitude, and calls it — peace.* 

Byron, The Bride of Abydos, can. ii. st. 20. 

Peace — Xor peace nor ease the heart can know, 
Which, like the needle true, 
Turns at the touch of joy or woe, 
But, turning, trembles too. 

Mrs. Greviile,-|- A Prayer for Indifference, 

Peace— Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, 
Have no delight to pass away the time. 

Shaks. K. Richard III, act i. sc. 1. 



* Solitudinem faciunt. — pacem appellant. Tacitus, Agricola, cap. 30. 

t The pretty Fanny Macartney.— "Walpole's Memoirs. 



250 PEACE—PEN. 

Peace — There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked, 

Isaiah xlviii. 22. 

Pearl — Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime 
Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. v. 1. 1. 

Pearl — Of one whose hand, 

Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away 
Richer than all his tribe. Shaks. Othello, act v. sc. 2. 

Pearls — Gro boldly forth, my simple lay, 
"Whose accents flow with artless ease, 
Like orient pearls at random strung. 

Sir W. Joxes, A Persian Song of Hafiz. 

Pearls — Neither cast ye your pearls before swine. Matt. yii. 6. 

Pearls — Some asked how pearls did grow, and where : 
Then spoke I to my girl, 
To part her lips, and showed them there 
The quarrelets of pearl. 

Herrick, The Bock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls. 

Peas — In short, their toes so gently to amuse, 
The priest had ordered peas into their shoes. 

Peter Pindar (Woloot). 

Pelops* line — Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, 

Or the tale of Troy divine. Milton, // Penseroso, 1. 99. 

Pelting — Poor naked wretches, wberesoe'er you are, 
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm. 
How shall your houseless heads, and unfed sides, 
Tour looped and windowed raggedness, defend you 
From seasons such as these? Shaks. King Lear, act iii. sc. 4. 

Pen — The feather, whence the pen 

"Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, 
Dropped from an angeVs icing* 

Wordsworth, Eccles. Sonnets, pt. iii. Walton's Lives. 

Pen — This duW. pj^oduct of a scoffer s pen. 

Wordsworth, The Excursion, bk. ii. 



* The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing, 

Made of a quill from an angel's wing. H. Constable, Soiuiet. 

Whose noble praise 
Deserves a qnill pluckt from an angel's wing. 

Dorothy Berry, Sonnet. 



PEX— PEPPERED. 251 

Pen — My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Psalm xlv. 1. 

Pen — Beneath the rule of men entirely great, 
The pen is mightier than the sword * 

E. B. Ltttox, Richelieu, act ii. sc. 2. 

Pen — The unhappy man who once has trail 'd a pen, 
Lives not to please himself hut other men, 
Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, 
Yet only eats and drinks what you think good. 

DbydeHj Prologue to Lee's Cctsar Borgia. 

Pendulum — Man I 

Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. 

Byeox, Child e Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. 109. 

Penitent — Who, like a penitent libertine, shall start, 
Look back, and shudder at his younger years. 

Shelley, Queen Mab, v. last lines. 

Pensive — Come, buy my lays, and read them if you list, 
My pensive public, if you list not buy. 

Ay too", Bon Gaultier, prologue. 

Pentameter — In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column ; 
In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. 

Coleeldge, The Ovidian Elegiac Metre. 

People — The people here, a beast of burden slow, 
Toil'd onward, prick'd with goads and stings. 

Texxysox, Palace of Art. 

— For whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest, 
I will lodge : thy people shcdl be my people, and thy God my God. 

Ruth i. 16. 

People — Here shall the Press the people's light maintain, 
Unawed by influence, and unbribed by gain ; 
Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, 
Pledged to Keligion, Liberty, and Law. 

J. Story, Motto of the Salem Register. f 

Peppered — Who peppered the highest was surest to please. 

Goldsmith, Retaliation, 1. 111. 



* The first Xapoleon said that " three hostile journals were more to be 
feared than a hundred thousand bayonets." 
t Life of Story, vol. i. p. 127. 



252 PER CHED— PHILISTINES. 

Perched — Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber 
door — 
Perched and sat and nothing more. 

E. A. Poe, The Raven. 

Perfect — A perfect woman, nobly planned, 
To warn, to comfort, and command. 

"Wordsworth, She was a Phantom of Delight, 

Peri — One morn a Peri at the gate 

Of Eden stood disconsolate. Moore, Paradise and the Peri. 

Perilous— -That's & perilous shot out of an elder gnu. 

Shaks. K. Henry V, act iv. sc. 1. 

Perjuries — At lover s perjuries, 

They say, Jove laughs.* Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 2. 

Persian's Heaven — A Persian's Heaven is easily made : 
'Tis but black eyes and lemonade. 

Moore, Intercepted Letters, let. vi. 

Persuaded — Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. 

Rom. xiv. 5. 

Persuasive — By magic numbers and persuasive sound. 

Congreve, The Mourning Bride, act i. sc. 1. 

Persons — For there is no respect of persons with God. Rom. ii. 11. 

Perverts — Perverts the Prophets and purloins the Psalms. 

Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 1. 326. 

Petition — Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day. \ 

Fielding, Tom Thumb, act i. sc. 2. 

Pharaoh — ■ And was not Pharaoh a saucy rascal, 

That would not let the children of Israel, their wives 
And little ones, their flocks and herds, go 
Out in the wilderness forty days 

To eat the Pascal ? 

Z. Boyd, Bible History. 

Philistines — The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. Judges xvi. 9. 



* See p. 196. 

f Cause me no causes. MASSnrGEK, Xew Way, act i. sc. 1. 

Thank me no thankings, proud me no prouds. 

Shaks, Borneo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 5, 
But me no bats. Fielding-. 

Diamond me no diamonds, prize me no prizes. 

Te.n^yso^, Idylls, Elaine. 



PHILOSOPHER— PI A MA TEE. 253 

Philosopher — For there was never yet philosopher 
That could endure the toothache patiently. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act v. sc. 1. 

Philosophy — Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? 

Shaks. As You Like It, act iii. sc. 2. 

' Philosophy — I have read somewhere or other — in Dionysius of 
Halicarnassus, I think— that History is Philosophy teaching by 

examples * 

Bolixgbeoke, On the Study and Use of History, letter 2. 

Phoebus- — Hark ! hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings, 

And Phoebus 1 gins arise. f Shaks. Cymbeline, act ii. sc, 3. 

Phoebus — Amos Cottle ! Phoebus! what a name! 

Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 1. 399. 

Phosphor — Sweet Phosphor, bring the day; 
"Whose conquering ray 
May chase these fogs ; 

Sweet Phosphor, bring the day ! 

Sweet Phosphor, bring the day; 
Light will repay 

The wrongs of night, 

Sweet Phosphor, bring the day ! 

Quaeres, Emblems, bk. i. em. 14. 

Phyllis — Herbs, and other country messes, 

Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses ! Milton, E Allegro, 1. ss. 

Physic — Take physic, pomp ; 

Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. 

Shaks. K. Lear, act iii. sc. 4. 

Physician — Physician, heal thyself. Luke iv. 23. 

Pia mater — These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished 
in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of 
occasion. Shaks, Love's Labour s Lost, act iv. sc. 2. 



* Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ars Bhet. xi. 2 (p, 393, R). says, — Ucahia ogee 
errlv r t £ r ,TF»r.j t£v rzxV tzZtz ksc) ©cxvcicr,- scms Xiyav, its:) jcrcg/aj "Ksyujy, or* xai 
lerogia (fNtarocfftoe Irr,; h ragueSayMaraw, quoting Thuc. i. 22. 
t None but the lark so shrill and clear ! 

Now at Heaven's gate she claps her wings, 
The morn not waking till she sings. 

Joh:n~ Lyiy, Alex, and Campaspe, act v. sc. 2. 



254 PIECE— PITY. 

Piece — Whoever thinks & faultless piece to see, 
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall he.* 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. ii. 1. 53. 

Pig — In doing of aught let your wit bear a stroke 
For buying or selling of pig in a poke. 

Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. 

Pigmies — Pigmies are pigmies still though perched on Alps, 
And pyramids are pyramids in vales. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night vi. 1. 309. 

Pigs — Arit please thePigs. — "Pigs" is here a corruption of "Pyx," 
in which the Host is kept in Koman Catholic countries, and 
originally may have been equivalent to the modern phrase, 
" Deo volente." 

Pilot — The pilot of the Galilean lake. Milton, Lycidas, 1. 109. 

Pin — A pin a-day will fetch a groat a-year. 

W. King, Art of Cookery, 1. 404. 

Pinch — One Pinch ; a hungry lean-faced villain — 

A mere anatomy. Shaks. Comedy of Errors, act v. sc. 1. 

Pines — Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines. 

Coleridge, Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni. 

Pin's fee — I do not set my life at a pin's fee. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 4. 

Pipe — They are not & pipe for Fortune 's finger 

■ To sound what stop she please. Give me that man 

That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him 

In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, 

As I do thee. Ibid, act iii. sc. 2. 

Pitch — He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith. 

Ecclus. xiii. 1. 
Pity — Careless their merits or their faults to scan, 

His pity gave ere charity began. Goldsmith, Deserted ViL 1. 161. 

Pity — Are not within the leaf of pity writ. 

Shaks. Timon of Athens, act iv. sc. 3. 

Pity — But yet the pity of it, Iago ! Iago, the pity of it, Iago ! 

Shaks. Othello, act iv. sc. 1. 



■ " High characters," cries one, and he would see 
Things that ne'er were, nor are, nor e'er will be. 

Suckling, Epilogue to the Goblins. 



PITY—PLAIX. 255 

Pity — Lovely in death the heauteous ruin lay ; 
And if in death still lovely, lovelier there ; 
Far lovelier ! pity swells the tide of love. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night iii. 1. km. 

Pity — Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, 

Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, 
Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span ; 
Oh ! give relief, and Heaven will bless your store. 

T. Moss, The Beggar, 

Pity — Pity's akin to love.* T. Southerne, Oroonoko, act ii. sc. 1, 
Pity — For pity melts the mind to love. 

Drydex, Alexander 's Feast, 1. 96. 

Pity — Of all the paths lead to a woman's love, 
Pity's the straightest. 

Beaumont and Fletcher, Knight of Malta, act i. sc. i, 

Place — (i A jolly place," said he, (( in times of old! 
But something ails it now : the spot is cursed." 

Wordsworth, Hart-leap Well, pt. ii. 

Place — He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his 
place know him any more.f Job vii. 10. 

Place — In the place where the treefalleth, there it shall be. 

Eccles. xi. 3. 
Places — The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places. 

Psalm xvi. 6. 
Plagiare — For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered 
by the borrower, among good authors is accounted plagiare. 

Miltox, Iconoclastes, xxiv. ad fin. 
Plague — A plague o' both your houses! I am sped ! 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. i. 
Plain — Plain as a pikestaff. 

Smollett, Trans, of Gil Bias, bk. xii. ch. s. 
Plain — Mark, now, how a plain tale shall put you down. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act ii. sc. i. 



* Viola. I pity you. 

Olivia. That's a degree to lore, 

Shaks. Twelfth Night, act iii. sc. 1. 
t For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall 
know it no more. — Psalm ciii. 16. 
Usually quoted, " The place that has known him shall know him no more." 



256 PLATO— PLEASURE. 

Plato — It must be so. Plato, thou reasonest well. 
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, 
This longing after immortality? Addison, Cato, act v. sc. 1. 

Played — Here play' d a tiger, rolling to and fro 

The heads and crowns of kings. Tennyson, Palace of Art. 

Play'd — I've reached the harbour: Hope and Chance, adieu: 
You've play'd with me, now play with others too.* 

Translated from the Anthologia Grceca. 

Play-place — Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, 
We love the play-place of our early days. 

Cowper, Tirocinium, 1. 316. 

Pleasant — Some swore he was a maid in man's attire, 
For in his looks were all that men desire ; 
A pleasant-smiling cheek, a speaking eye, 
A brow for love to banquet royally. 

Marlowe, Hero arid Leander, first sestiad, 1. 83. 

Pleasant — 'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, 
To peep at such a world, to see the stir 
Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. iv. The Winter Evening. 

Pleased — Pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore. 

Sterne, Tristram Shandy. 

Pleasure — Pleasure that comes unlook'dfor is thrice welcome. 

Rogers, Italy, an interview, 1. 1. 

Pleasure — Sweet is pleasure after pain. 

Dryden, Alexander's Feast, 1. 60. 

Pleasure — Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm. 

Gray, The Bard, pt. ii. st. 2. 

Pleasure — There is a. pleasure in the pathless woods, 
There is a rapture on the lonely shore, 
There is society where none intrudes, 
By the deep sea, and music in its roar : 
I love not man the less, but nature more. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. 17?. 



• From lines at the end of Le Sage's Gil Bias: — 

Inveni portum : spes et fortnna, valete : 
Sat me lusistis, ludite nunc alios. 
Translated from the Anthologia Graeca. Burton ascribes this version to 
Prudentius. These lines are not in St. Marc Girurdin's edition, Paris, 1860. 



PLEASURE— POETICAL. 257 

Pleasure — Though on pleasure she was bent, 

She had a frugal mind. Oowfkr, History of John Gilpin. 

Pleasure — To-day it is out pleasure r o be drunk. 

And this our Queen shall be as drunk as we. 

Fielding, Tom Thumb* 

re — Who mixed reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth. 
Goldsmith, Retaliation, 1. 24, 

Pleasures — But pleasures are like poppies spread : 
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; 
Or, like the snow-fall in the river. 

A moment white, then melts for ever. Brp^s, Tarn O'Shanter. 

Pleiades — The sweet influences of Pleiades. Job xxxviii. 31. 

Plentiful — Thev have A plentiful lack of wit. 

Shahs. Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2. 

Plowshares — And thev shall beat their swords into plowshares, and 

their spears into priming-hooks. Mic. iv, 3. 

Plover — But as some muskets so contrive it 
As oft to miss the mark they drive at, 
And. though well dined at duck or plover, 
Bear wide, and kick their owners over. 

J. Trumbull, MeFingal, can. i, 1, os. 

Plucked — And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile. 
Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 1. 154. 

let — Deeper than did ever plummet sound. 

I'll drown my book." Shahs. Tempest, act v, sc, 1, 

Poesy — Poesu, thou sweer'st content 
That ere to Hean'n mortals lent : 
Though they as a trifle leaue thee, 
Whose dull thoughts cannot conceue thee, 

* * * * 

Thou dost teach me to contemne 
What makes knaues and fools of them. 

G. Withers, Shepheards Hunting, 

Poetical — Truly, / would the gods had made thee poetical ! 

Shahs. As You. Like It. act iii. sc, 3. 



* See page 111. 



258 POETRY— POOR. 

Poetry — Most wretched men 

Are eradled into poetry by wrong; 
They learn in suffering what they teach in song. 

P. B. Shelley, Julian and Maddolo. 

Poets — Poets are all who love, who feel great truths 

And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. Bailey's Festus. 

Pcetus — Sighed the chaste Arria to her Pcetus brave, 

Drawing the sword which pierced her from her heart, 
" Smarts not the wound, ah, trust me ! which I gave : 
The wound which pierces you bears all the smart." * 

Martial, ep. xiv. Translated by the Editor. 

Point — "Not to pat too fine a point upon it, 1 " — a favourite apology 
for plain speaking with Mr. Snagsby, which he always offers 
with a sort of argumentative frankness. 

Charles Dickens, Bleak House, chap. xi. 

Point — Don't put too fine a point to your wit, for fear it should get 
blunted. Cervantes, The Little Gypsy (La Gitanilla). 

Poison — Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth. 

Shaks. K. John, act i. sc. 1. 

Pole — Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, 
And waft a sighf?*o?n Indus to the Pole. 

Pope, Elo'i'sa to Abelard, 1. 5". 

Politeness — Politeness costs nothing and gains everything, f 

Lady M. TTortley Montagu, Letters. 

Pool — The green mantle of the standing pool. 

Shaks. King Lear, act iii. sc. 4. 

Poor — I am very lonely now. Mary, 

For the poor make no new friends ; 
But 0, they love the better still 
The few our Father sends. 

Lady Dufferin, Lament of the Irish Emigrant. 

Poor — For the poor always ye have with you. John xii. s. 



* For the relation of this incident, words pronounced, according to the 
Jesnit editor of Martial, Vincentius Collesso, " voce immortali ac pene 
divina," the reader is referred to Plinv, epistle xvi. lib. 3, and Tacitus, annal. 
lib. 16. 

t Parole douce, et main au bonnet, 

Ne coute rien, et bon est. 

Henry IV, of France. 



POOR— POWER. 259 

Poor — Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. 

Shaks. Othello, act iii. sc. s. 

Poor — Thou found' st me poor at first, and keep'st me so. 

Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 1. 414. 

Pope — Xor do I know what is become 
Of him, more than the Pope of Rome. 

Butler, Hudibras, part i. can. iii. 1. 263 

Poppy — Xot poppy nor mandr agora, 

Xor all the drowsy syrups of the world, 
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep 
Which thou ow'dst yesterday. Shaks. Othello, act iii. sc. 3. 

Port — From humble Port to imperial Tokay. 

J. Towxley, High Life Below Stairs, act ii. sc. l. 

Ports — All places that the eye of Heaven visits 
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. 

Shaks. K. Richard II, act i. sc. 3. 

Post — When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, 
The post of honour is a private station. 

Addis ox, Cato, act iv. sc. 2. 

Potations — Potations pottle deep. Shaks. Othello, act ii. sc. 3. 

Potent — Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors. 

Ibid, act i. sc. 3. 

Poverty — My poverty, but not my will, consents. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act v. sc. 1. 

Poverty — The early chill of Poverty never left my bones. 

R. L. Shell, Memoirs. 

Poverty — Steeped me in poverty to the very lips.* 

Shaks. Othello, act iv. sc. 2. 

Poverty — With one hand he put 

A penny in the urn of poverty, 
And with the other took a shilling out. 

R. Pollok, The Course of Time, bk. viii. 1. 6.32. 

Power — His rod reversed, 

And backward mutters of dissevering power. 

Miltox, Comus, 1. 816. 



See ante, Miserable. 



260 POWER— PRA YER. 

Power — Power, like a desolating pestilence, 
Pollutes whatever it touches ; and obedience, 
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, 
Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame 
A mechanized automaton. Shelley, Queen Mob, pt. iii. p. 212. 

Power — The power of thought, — the magic of the mind. 

Byrox, The Corsair, can. i. st. s. 

Powers — The powers that be are ordained of God. Ro?n. xiii. 1. 

Praise — Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, 
We scarcely can praise it, or blame it, too much. 

Goldsmith, Retaliation, 1. 29. 
Praise — Remote from man, with God he passed the days, 
Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise. 

T. Parxell, The Hermit, 1. 5. 

Praise — And solid pudding against empty praise .* 

Pope, The Dunciad, bk. i. 1. 54. 

Praise — Praise is the best diet for us after all. 

Sydney Smith, W. W. p. 333. 

Praise — Praise undeserved is satire in disguise, f- 

From the Garland, a Collection of Poems, 1721, by 
Mr. Broadhurst, author of a Copy of Verses, 
called " The British Beauties." 

Praising — Praising what is lost 

Makes the remembrance dear. 

Shaks. All's Well that Ends Well, act v. sc. 3. 

Prayer — Prayer is the burden of a sigh, 
The falling of a tear ; 
The upward glancing of an eye, 
When none but God is near. 

J. Montgomery, What is Prayer? 
Prayer — Prayer ardent opens heaven. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night viii. 1. 721. 



* Even I more sweetly pass my careless days, 

Pleased in the silent shade with empty praise. 

Pope, Windsor Forest, last lines but two. 
f This line is quoted by Pope, in the First Ep. of Horace, bk. ii : — " Praise 
undeserved is scandal in disguise ; " and was first traced to its source by the 
Editor of the present volume in one of the early numbers of Notes and 
Queries. 



PR A YER— PRIAM'S C UR TAIN. 261 

Prayer — Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, 
Uttered or unexpressed, 
The motion of a hidden fire 

That trembles in the breast. J. Montgomery, On Prayer. 
Prayer — The imperfect offices of prayer and praise. 

Wordsworth, The Excursion, bk. i. 

Prayer — Wherever God erects a house of prayer 
The devil always builds a chapel there. 

De Foe, True-Born Englishman, pt. i. 1. 1. 

Prayeth — He prayeth well who loveth well 
Both man and bird and beast. 

Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner. 

Preached — I preached as never sure to preach again, 
And as a dying man to dying- men. 

Baxter, Love breathing Thanhs and Praise. 

Precept — For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept ; 
line upon line, line upon line ; here a little, and there a little. 

Isaiah xxviii. 10. 

Precious — Let none admire 

That riches grow in Hell : that soil may best 

Deserve the precious bane. aIiltox, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 690. 
Present — Present fears 

Are less than horrible imaginings. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 3. 

Present — Philosophy triumphs over past and future evils, but 
present evils triumph over philosophy. Rochefoucauld, Max. 

Press — Press not a falling man too far. 

Shaks, K. Henry VIII, act iii. sc. 2. 

Pretty — A pretty hind of— sort of- — kind of thing, 

Xot much a verse, and poem none at all. 

Leigh Huxt, A Thought or Two- 
Prey — If I do prove her haggard, 

Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, 

I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind 

To prey at fortune. Shaks. Othello, act iii. sc. 3. 

Priam's curtain — Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, 
So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, 
Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, 
And would have told him half his Troy was burned. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part ii. act i. sc. i. 



262 PRICKING— PRINCED OMS. 

Pricking — By the pricking of my thumbs, 

Something wicked this way comes. Shaks. Macb. act iv. sc. 1. 

Pricking — A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine. 

Spenser, Faerie Queene, bk. i. can. i. 1. 1. 

Pricks — It is hard for thee to kick against the pjicks. Acts ix. 5. 

Pride — 'Tis pride, rank pride and haughtiness of soul ; 
I think the Romans call it Stoicism. Addison, Cato, act i. sc. 4. 

Pride — Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. 

Shaks. Othello, act iii. sc. 3. 

Pride — Never to blend our pleasure or our pride 
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. 

Wordsworth, Hart-leap Well, pt. ii. 

Pride — Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. 

Pope, Ep. to Dr. Arbuihnot, 1. 333. 

Pride — Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. ii. 1. 6. 

Priestcraft — Perhaps thou wert a priest — if so, my struggles 
Are vain, for priestcraft never owns its juggles. 

Horace Smith, Address to a Mummy. 

Priests — One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight ; 
Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.* 

Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 1. 273. 

Primrose — A primrose by a rivers brim, 
A yellow primrose was to him, 

And it was nothing more. Wordsworth, Peter Bell, pt. i. st. 12. 

Primrose — Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, 
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. 

Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 1. 329. 

Prince — & prince can make a belted knight, 
A marquis, duke, and a' that ; 
But an honest man's aboon his might : 
Guid faith, he munna fa' that. 

Burns, Is therefor Honest Poverty. 

Princedoms — Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers. 
Milton, Pai^adise Lost, bk. v. 1. 601. 



* Priests, tapers, temples, swam before my sight. 

Ed. Smith, Phcedra and Hippolytus. 



PRINCIPLES— PROPER. 263 

Principles — Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, 
Tenets with books, and principles with times.* 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. i. 1. 173. 

Privilege — Sir, you abuse the privilege which you men have of 
being ugly. Attributed to Madame Seyigne, 

Procrastination — Procrastination is the thief of time. 

Young. Night Thoughts, night i. 1. £93. 

Profit — No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en ; 
In brief, sir, study what you most affect. 

Shaks. Taming of the Shrew, act i. sc. i. 

Progeny — A progeny of learning. 

Sheridan, The Rivals, act i. sc. 2. 

, Progress — Kevere the man, whose pilgrim marks the road, 
And guides the progress of the soul to God. 

Cowper, Tirocinium, 1. 154. 

Prohibited — 'Cause Grace and Virtue are within 
Prohibited degrees of kin; 
And therefore no true saint allows 
They shall be suffered to espouse. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. iii. can. i. 1. 1293. 

Prologues — Two truths are told, 

As happy prologues to the swelling act 
Of the imperial theme. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 3. 

Promise — And though he promise to his loss, 

He makes his promise good. Tate and Brady, Ps. xv. 15. 

Promotion — good old man, how well in thee appears 
The constant service of the antique world, 
When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! 
Thou art not for the fashion of these times, 

Where none will sweat but for promotion. 

Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. 3. 

Proof — Give me the ocular proof Shaks. Othello, act iii. sc. s. 

Proper — Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; 
1 The proper study of mankind is man.f 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. ii. 1. 1. 



* Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis. — Borboxius. 

t From Charron (de la Sagesse) : — M La vraye science et le vray etude de 
l'homme c'est rhomme." 



264 PROPERTY— PR OVIDENCE. 

Property — Property has its duties as well as its rights. 

Marquis of Noksianby (when Earl Mulgrave).* 

Prophet — A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, 

and in his own. house. Matt. xiii. 57. 

Prophetic — The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, 
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray! 

Byron, The Bride of Abydos, can. ii. st. 20. 

Prophetic — my prophetic soul ! my uncle ! 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 5. 

Proportion — I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, 
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, 
Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time 
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up. 

Shaks. K. Richard III, act i. sc. 1. 

Prose — And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad, 
It is not poetry, but prose run mad. 

Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, 1. ist. 

Prose — And tell prose writers, stories are so stale 
That penny ballads make a better sale. 

JS". Bretox, PasquiVs Madcap, 1600. 

Prosperity — A jest's prosperity lies in the ear 
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue 
Of him that makes it. Shaks. Love's Labour s Lost, act v. sc. 2. 

Prosperity — I wish you all sorts of prosperity, with a little more 
taste. Le Sage, Gil Bias, bk. vii. chap. 4. 

Prosperity — Surer to prosper than prosperity 

Could have assured us. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. 39. 

Proud — Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall 
thy proud waves be stayed. Job xxxviii. 11. 

Prouder — Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk. 

Shaks. Cymbeline, act iii. sc. 3. 

Proverb — A proverb and a byword among all people. 1 Kings ix. 7. 

Providence — 'Tis Providence alone secures 

In every change both mine and yours. Cowper, A Fable (moral). 



* This has been attributed to Chief Baron Woulfe and to Mr. Drnmmond ; 
but there is authority for stating that Lord Mulgrave, then filling the vice- 
regal chair at Dublin, wrote the letter in which it occurred himself, and gave 
it to Mr. Drummond, the under-secretary, to transcribe. 



PROVIDENCE- PURGE. 265 

Providence — The world was all before them, where to choose 
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. xii. 1. &is, 

Providence — Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, 
But trust Him for His grace; 
Behind a frowning providence 

He hides a smiling face. Cowper, Olney Hymns, lxviii. 

Prudes — With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans, 
Aud sweet girl-graduates with their golden hair. 

Tenhyson, The Princess, 

Prunello — "Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; 
The rest is all but leather or prunello. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. 203. 

Public — He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant 
streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of 
Public Credit, and.it sprung upon its feet.* 

Speech on Hamilton, March, 1831. 

Puff — Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what came, 
And the puff of a dunce he mistook it for fame. 

Goldsmith, Retaliation, 1. 109. 

Pulpiteer — To chapel; where a heated pulpiteer, 
2sot preaching simple Christ to simple men, 
Announced the coming doom.f Tenntson, Sea Dreams. 

Punishment — My punishment is greater than I can bear. 

Gen. iv. 13. 

Pun-provoking — Pun-provoking thyme. 

Shexstone, The Schoolmistress, st. 11. 

Pure — Unto the pure all things are pure. Titus i. 15. 

Pure — Like the stained web that whitens in the sun, 
Grow pure by being purely shone upon. 

AIooee, The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. 

Purge — Purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act v. sc. 4. 



* He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a 
skeleton, and clothed it with life, colour, and complexion; he embraced the 
cold statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty. — Barry 
Yexvertox (Lord Avonmore). On Blackstone. 

+ O most gentle pulpiter! what a tedious homily of love hare you wearied 
your parishioners withal. — Shaks. As You Like It, act iii. sc. 2. 



266 PURITANS— PYRRHIC. 

Puritans — The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it. gave 

pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.* 

Macaulay, History of England, vol. i. chap. 2. 

Purpose — Infirm of purpose. Shaks. Macbeth, act ii. sc. 2. 

Purse — Put money in thy purse. Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. 3. 

Push — Push on — keep moving. 

T. Morton, A Cure for the Heartache, act ii. sc. 1. 

Pyramid — Tell us, for doubtless thou canst recollect, 
To whom we should assign the Sphinx's fame ? 
Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect 

Of either pyramid that bears his name ? 

Horace Smith, To BelzonVs Mummy, 

Pyrrhic — You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, 
Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? 
Of two such lessons, why forget 

The nobler and the manlier one ? 
You have the letters Cadmus gave — 
Think ye he meant them for a slave ? 

Byron, Don Juan, can. iii. st. 86. v.' 10. 



* Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian ; the sport 
of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence. 

Hume, History of England, vol. i. chap. 62. 




QUALITY— QUIPS. 




UALITY — Come, give us a taste of your quality. 
Shaks. Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2. 

Quarrel — Greatly to find quarrel in a strata, 
When honour's at the stake. Ibid, act iv. sc. 4. 

Quarrel — The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as 
it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. 

Sheridan, The Rivals, act iv. sc. 3. 

Quarrel — They who in quarrels interpose 
Must often wipe a bloody nose. Gay, Fable of the Mastiffs. 

Quarry — Your castle is surprised ; your wife and babes 

Savagely slaughtered: to relate the manner 

Were, on the quarry of these murdered deer, 
- To add the death of you. Shaks. Macbeth, act iv. sc. 3. 

Queen Dido — Perchance that very hand, now pinioned flat, 
Has hob-a-nobbed with Pharaoh, glass to glass ; 
Or dropped a halfpenny in Homer's hat, 

Or doffed thine own to let Queen Dido pass. 

Horace Smith, Address to a Mummy. 

Quiet — But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell ! 

Byrox, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iii. st. 42. 
Quiet — The quiet sense of something lost. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxxvii. 
Quintilian — That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. 

Milton, Sonnets, son. 11. 

Quips — Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee 
Jest, and youthful Jollity, 
Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, 
Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles. Melton, L' Allegro, 1. 25. 



I 




RACE— RAKE. 




ACE — Let others hail the rising sun, 
I bow to that whose race is run. 

David Garrick, On the Death of Mr. Pelham. 

Rags — The man forgets not, though in rags he lies, 

And knows the mortal through a clown's disguise. 

Mark Akenside, Ep. to Curio. 

Rain — The quality of mercy is not strained ; 
It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven 
Upon the place beneath : it is twice blessed ; 
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. 
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes 
The throned monarch better than his crown : 
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, 
The attribute to awe and majesty, 
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings : 
But mercy is above this sceptred sway ; 
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, 
It is an attribute to Gfod Himself; 
And earthly power doth then show likes t God's 
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, 
Though justice be thy plea, consider this, — 
That in the course of justice none of us 
Should see salvation ; we do pray for mercy ; 
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render 
The deeds of mercy. Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act iv. sc. 1. 

Rainbow — Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life. 

Byron, The Bride of Abydos, can. ii. st. 20. 

Rake — He (Steele) was a rake among scholars, and a scholar 
among rakes. Macaulay, Review ofAikins Life of Addison. 



RALPH— READ. 269 

Ralph — Silence, ye wolves ! -while Ralph to Cynthia howls, 
And makes night hideous;* answer him, ye owls. 

Pope, The Dunciad, bk. iii. 1. 165. 

Rank — Rank is but the guinea's stamp, 
The man's the gowd for a' that.-f- 

Burns, Is there for Honest Poverty. 

Rapt — As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, 
As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. i. 1. 277. 

Rarity — Alas ! for the rarity 

Of Christian charity 
Under the sun. T. Hood, The Bridge of Sighs. 

Rascals — And put in every honest hand a whip, 
To lash the rascals naked through the world. 

Shaks. Othello, act iv. sc. 2. 

Rather — Rather than be less, 

Cared not to be at all. aIiltox, Par. Lost, bk. ii. 1. 47. 

Raw — And raw in fields the rude militia swarms ; 
Mouths without hands; maintained at vast expense; 
In peace a charge, in war a weak defence ; 
Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, 
And ever, but in times of need, at hand. 

Dkydex, Cymon and Iphigenia, 1. 400. 

Razors — A fellow in a market town, 

Most musical, cried razors up and down. 

Dr. Wolcot, Farewell Odes, ode iii.. 

Razv.re — 'Gainst the tooth of time 

And r azure of oblivion. Shaks. Meas.for Meas. act v. sc. 1. 

Read — Read Homer once, and you can read no more, 
For all books else appear so mean, so poor ; 
Verse will seem prose ; but still persist to read, 
And Homer will be all the books you need. 

Sheffield (Duke of Buckingham), Essay on Poetry. 

Read — Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. 

Collect for the Second Sunday in Advent. 



* Making night hideous. — Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 4. 
t I "weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the kind's stamp can make the 
metal better.— Wycherley, The Country Wife, act i. sc. 1. 



270 READING— REASON. 

Reading — Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, 
and writing an exact man. F. Bacon, Essay 1. On Studies. 

Reading — Reading what they never wrote ; 
Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, 
And with a well-bred whisper close the scene. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. ii. The Timepiece. 

Reason — I have no other but a woman's reason : 
I think him so, because I think him so. 

Shaks. Two Gentlemen of Verona, act i. sc. 2. 

Reason — 'Tis an odd fellow, I can tell you, as any is in all Wales; 
he can sing, rhyme with reason, and rhyme without reason, and 
without reason or rhyme. 

George Peele, Edward I, Dyce's Ed. p. 383. 

Reason — I was promised on a time 
To have reason for my rhyme; 
From that time unto this season, 
I received nor rhyme nor reason* Ascribed to Spenser. 

Reason — No reason ask, our reason is our will. 

J. Marston, Malcontent, act i. sc. 1. 

Reason — And shall they scorn Tre, Pol, and Pen, 
And shall Trelawny die? 
There's thirty thousand Cornishmen 
Shall know the reason why.f 

Reason — All those instances to be found in history, whether real 
or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is per- 
plexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted nature 
recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the in- 
struction of youth. Burke, First Letter on a Regicide Peace. 



* Probably by Charles Churchyard, a contemporary poet ; it is thus 
written : — 

Yon bid your treasurer on a time, 

To give me reason for my rhyme ; 

But from that time and that season 

I hare had nor rhyme nor reason. 
+ "Written in 1824 by Rev. R. S. Hawker, vicar of Morwenstow. After- 
wards Davies Gilbert, President of the Royal Society, reprinted the entire 
ballad, believing it to be an ancient one, and Sir Walter Scott regarded it as 
" the solitary people's song of the seventeenth century." Lord Macaulay 
quotes the refrain ^ which is old) accurately in his History of England, chap. 



REASO N—R EM ED Y. 271 

Reason — Xeither rhyme nor reason can express how much. 

Shaks. As You Like It, act iii. sc. 2. 

Reason — The insane root 

That talced the reason prisoner. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 3. 

Reason — On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, 
Reason the card, but passion is the gale. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. ii. 1. 107. 

Reason's pleasure — Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, 
Lie in three words, — health, peace, and competence. 

Ibid, bk.iv.1. 79, 

Rebels — Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels 
from principle. Burke, On the French Revolution. 

Rebuke — Open rebuke is better than secret love. Prov. xxvii. 5- 

Reck — And may you better reck the rede 

Than ever did th/ adviser ! Burxs, Epigram to a Young Friend. 

Reflection — But with the morning cool reflection came. 

Scott, Highland Widow, introd. 

Reform — 0, reform it altogether. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Reform — You stand the champion of the people's cause, 
And bid the mob reform defective laws. 

Pope, Epistle to Lord Bolingbroke. 

Reformation — 'Tis the talent of our English nation 
Still to be plotting some new reformation. 

G. Chapman, Widow's Tears, act i. sc. 1. 

Relic — Fair Greece ! sad relic of departed worth I 
Immortal, though no more; though fallen, great. 

Byrox, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. ii. st. 73. 

Reluctant — Standing with reluctant feet 

Where the brook and river meet. Loxgeellow, Maidenhood. 

Remedies — Our remedies c>u in ourselves do lie 
Which we ascribe to Heaven. 

Shaks. All's Well that Ends Well, act i. sc. 1. 

Remedy — Things without all remedy 

Should be without regard : what's done is done. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act iii. sc. 2. 

Remedy — Or else the remedy is worse than the disease. 

Bacox, Essay xv. Seditions, last line. 



272 REMED Y— RESPECT. 

Remedy — "Withdraw thy action and depart in peace, 
The remedy is worse than the disease. 

Dryden, Juvenal, sat. xvi. 1. 32. 
Remember — Remember Lofs wife. Luke xvii. 32. 

Remembered — I've been so long remembered, I'm forgot. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night iv. I. 57. 
Remnant — A remnant of uneasy light. 

Wordsworth, The Matron of Tedborough. 

Remorsefully — Him Sir Bedivere 
Remorsefully regarded through his tears, 
And would have spoken, hut he found not words. 

Tennyson, Morte d J Arthur. 

Remote — Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow. 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, 1. 1. 

Repentance — Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears 

Her snaky crest. Thomson, The Seasons, Spring, 1. 996. 

Report — Report me and my cause aright. Shaks. Ham. act v. sc. 2. 

Reputation — At every word a reputation dies. 

Pope, The Rape of the Lock, can. iii. 1. 16. 

Resignation — While resignation gently slopes the way, 
And, all his prospects brightening to the last, 
His heaven commences ere the world be past. 

. Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, 1. 100. 

Resolved — Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, pt. i. 1. 174. 

Resonant — She has halls and she has castles, and the resonant steam 
eagles 
Follow far on the directing of her floating dove-like hand. 

E. B. Browning, L. Geraldine's Courtship.* 

Respect — Yes, I submit, my lord ; you've gained your end, 
I'm now your slave that would have been your friend ; 
I'll bow, I'll cringe, be supple as your glove, 
Respect, adore you, everything but love.f 

Martial, lib. ii. epig. xii. 



* Altered subsequently to — 

And the palpitating engines snort in steam across her acres, 
As they mark upon the blasted heaven the measure of the land. 
+ Translated by the Rev. R. Greaves, rector of Claverton, near Bath, about 
1760. 



RESPECT— REWARD. 273 

Respect — You have too much respect upon the world : 
They lose it that do buy it with much care. 

Shaks. Merchant of Venice, act i. sc. 1. 

Respectable — Q. What do yOu mean by " respectable"? 

A. He always kept a gig.* ThurtelVs Trial. 

Rest — Rest and be thankful. -\- 

Wordsworth. Sonnets, vol. iii. p. 228. 

Rest — She found no rest, and ever failed 

To draw the quiet night into her blood. J Tennyson, Enid. 

Rest — One that was a woman, sir, but, rest her soul, she's dead. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. 1. 

Resteth — Beneath this starry arch 

Naught resteth or is still, 

But all things hold their march 

As if by one great will : 

Moves one, move all, 

Hark to the footfall ! 

On, on for ever ! Harriet Martineau, Song for August. 

Retired — And add to these retired Leisure, 
That in trim gardens takes his pleasure. 

Milton, 11 Penseroso, 1. 49. 
Retirement — For solitude sometimes is best society, 
And short retirement urges sweet return. 

• Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ix. I. 249. 
Retort — The retort courteous. 

Shaks. As You Like It, act v. sc. 4. 
Revelry — Midnight shout and revelry, 

Tipsy dance and jollity. Milton, -Comus, 1. 103. 

Reward — But sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed ; 
What then is the reward of virtue, — bread? 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. 150. 

Reward — Take reward of thin owen value, that thou ne be to foule 
to thyself. Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Persones Tale. 

* Thus has it been said does society naturally divide itself into four classes : 
— Noblemen, gentlemen, gigmen, and men. 

Carlyle, Essay on Samuel Johnson. 
t An inscription on a seat at the head of Glencore. Lord Russell appropriated 
this sentiment after the recess in 1863. 

I Neque unquam 

Solvitur in somnos, oculisve aut pectore noctem 
Accipit. Virgil, JEneid, iv. I. 530. 



274 RICH— RIGHT. 

Rich — Rich and rare were the gems she wore. 

Moore, Irish Melodies. 

Rich — Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 1. 

Rich — Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, 1. 386. 

Rich — A large and fruitful mind should not so much labour what 
to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often] 
to be weeded. Bacon, Letter of Expostulation to Coke. 

Rich — But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, 
Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll.* 

Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard. 

Riches — Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell 

From Heaven ; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts 

Were always downward bent, admiring more 

The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, 

Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed 

In vision beatific. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 679. 

Rides — Calm and serene he drives the furious blast, 
And, pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform, 
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. -p 

Addisox, The Campaign, 1. 291. 

Ridicule — Ridicule is the test of truth. \ 

Right^-I see the right, and I approve it too, 

Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue. § 

From Ovid's Metamorphoses, Garth, 1751, 
vol. ii. bk. vii. 1. 20. 



* Rich with the spoils of nature. 

Sir T. Browne, Relig. Med. part i. sec. 13. 
t Frequently ascribed to Pope, Dunciad, bk. iii. 1. 261 : — 
Immortal Rich ! how calm he sits at ease 
'Mid snows of paper, and fierce hail of pease, 
And, proud his mistress' orders to perform, 
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. 
I " We have, oftener than once, endeavoured to attach some meaning to that 
aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which, however, we can find no- 
where in his works, that ' ridicule is the test of truth.' " — Carlyle, MisceU. 
vol. ii. p. 19. The Lord Rector of Edinburgh moreover adds, " But, of all 
chimaeras that ever advanced themselves in the shape of philosophical doc- 
trines, this is, to us, the most formless and purely inconceivable." 
§ Video meliora, proboque ; 

Sed deteriora sequor. Ovid. Met. lib. vii. 20. 



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RIGHT— RISE. 275 

Right — The right divine of kings to govern wrong. 

Pope, The Dunciad, bk. iv. 1. iss. 

; Right — " The right man in the right place" 

A. H. Layard, Speeches. 

Righteous — I have been young, and now am old ; yet have I not 
seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. 

Psalm xxxvii. 25. 

Righteous — Be not righteous over much. Eccles. vii. 16. 

Righteousness — Mercy and truth are met together ; righteousness 
and peace have kissed each other. Psalm lxxxv. 10. 

Righteousness — Righteousness exalt eth a nation. Prov. xiv. 34. 

Ring — Ring out wild bells to the wild sky. 

Tenxysox, In Memoriam, can. v. 

Ring — Ring out old shapes of foul disease, 
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; 
Ring out the thousand wars of old, 
Ring in the thousand years of peace. 

Ring in the valiant men and free, 

The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; 

Ring out the darkness of the land, 
Ring in the Christ that is to be. Ibid. 

Rip van Winkle — " Your Epimenides, your somnolent Peter 
Klaus, since named Rip van Winkle," says Carlyle, in his Mis- 
cellanies. — Peter was a goat-herd, who one day was beckoned by a 
stranger to follow him to a sequestered valley ; here he saw a can 
of wine, which he drank and then fell into a deep sleep. Awak- 
ening, he made his way back to the village and found himself 
grown old — he had been asleep for twenty years. This story 
Washington Irving has almost bodily appropriated, making the 
mountains not the XyfThaiiser, but the Caatskill; the country not 
Germany, but America. 

Ripe — From hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, 
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot, 
And thereby hangs a tale. Shaes. As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7. 

Rise — Go to your banquet then ; but use delight 

So as to rise still with an appetite. Herfjck, Hesperides, ccexli. 



276 RIVER— ROD. 

River — She was his life, 

The ocean to the river of his thoughts,* 
Which terminated all. Byrox, The Dream, st. 2. 

Rivulet — You shall see a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet 
of text shall meander through a meadow of margin, \ 

Sheridan, School for Scandal, act i. sc. 1. 

Road — Broad and spacious is the road to infernal life; there are 
enticements and death-bringing pleasures. Cyprian, in Ep. 

Road — life ! thou art a galling load 
Along a rough, a weary road, 
To wretches such as I. Burns, Despondency. 

Roads — I think, while zealots fast and frown, 
And fight for two or seven, 
That there are fifty roads to town 
And rather more to Heaven. 

TT. M. Praed, Chaunt of ye Brazen Head. 
Robbed — He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, 
Let him not know it, and he's not robbed at all. J 

Shaks. Othello, act iii. sc. 3. 
Robbed — The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief. 

Ibid, act i. sc. 3. 
Robbing — By robbing Peter he paid Paul, .... and hoped to 
catch larks if ever the heavens should fall. 

Eabelais, bk. i. chap. 5. 
Robes — Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; 
Robes and furred gowns hide all. 

Shaks. King Lear, act iv. sc. e. 

Rocket — And the final event to himself (Mr. Burke) has been that, 
as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick. 

Thos. Paixe, Letter to the Addressers. 
Rod— Well Master Pol 111 tickle : 

For him, at least, I have a rod in pickle. 

O'Xeefe, Midas, act ii. sc. 1. 

* She floats upon the river of his thoughts. 

Loxgfellow. The Spanish Student, actii.sc.3. 
Si che chiaro 
Per essa scenda della mente il flume. Daxte. 

t But every page having an ample marge, 
And every marge enclosing in the midst 
A square of text that looks a little blot. 

Texxvsox. Idylls, Vivien. 
I "What loss feels he that wots not what he loses ? 

BRooiiE, The Merry Beggars, act i. sc. 1. 



ROD— ROME. 277 

Rod — He shall rule them with a rod of iron. Rev. ii. 27. 

Roderick — Art thou a friend to Roderick ? 

Scott, The Lady of the Lake, can. iv. st. 30. 

Rogues — When rogues fall out, honest men get their own. — In a 
case before Sir Matthew Hale, the two litigants unwittingly let 
out that at a former period they had in conjunction leased a ferry- 
to the injury of the proprietor, on which Sir Matthew made the 
above remark. 
Roll — I am not in the roll of common 'men. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act iii. sc. 1. 
Roll — Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! 
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; 
Man marks the earth with ruin — his control 
Stops with the shore. 

Byrox, Childe Harold 9 s Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. 179. 
Roman — My voice is still for war. 

Gods ! can a Roman senate long debate 
Which of the two to choose, slavery or death ? 

Addison, Cato, act ii. sc. 1. 
Roman — This was the noblest Roman of them all. 

Shaks. Julius Casar, act v. sc. 5. 
Romans — The last of all the Romans, fare thee well. 

Ibid, act v. sc. 3. 
Rome — If Rome can pardon sins, as Eomans hold, 
And if those pardons can be bought and sold, 
It were no sin t' adore and worship Gold. 

EociiESTER, On Rome's Pardon . 
Rome — " When at Rome, do as Romans do."* 

* St. Augustine was in the habit of dining upon Saturday as upon Sunday ; 
but, being puzzled with the different practices then prevailing (for they had 
begun to fast at Rome on Saturday), he consulted St. Ambrose on the subject. 
Now at Milan they did not fast on Saturday ; and the answer of the Milan saint 
was this : — 

" When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome, I do fast on 
Saturday/' 

" Quandohic sum, nonjejuno Sabbato ; quando Romre sum, jejuno Sabbato." 
— St. Augustine, ep. xxxvi. To Casulanus. 

In Jeremy Taylor's Ductor Dubitaniium, 3rd edition, p. 25, we find the fol- 
lowing paragraph on case of conscience : — 

" He that fasted on Saturday in Ionia or Smyrna was a schismatick ; and so 
was he that did not fast at Milan or Borne upon the same day, both upon the 
same reason ; 

Cum fueris Romce, Romano rivito more, 
Cum fueris alibi, vivito sicut ibi : 
because he was to conform to the custom of Smyrna as well as that of Jlilan. 
in the respective diocesses." 



278 RO ME—R O WL A ND. 

Rome — When they are at Rome, they do there as they see clone. 
Burton, Anat. of Melon, pt. iii. sec. iv. m. 2. s. 1. 

Romeo — Romeo, Romeo ! wherefore art thou Romeo ? 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 2. 
Root — Seeing the root of the matter is found in me. Job xix. 28. 

Rose — What's in a name? that which we call a rose 

By any other name would smell as sweet. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 2. 
Rose — The rose is red, the violet blue,* 

The lily's sweet, and so are you. Old Valentine, 1721. 

Rose — The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, 
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. 

Scott, The Lady of the Lake, can, iv. st. 1. 

Rose — Sire Thopas was a doughty swain, 

White was his face as paindemaine [kind of white bread], 
His lippes red as rose. 

Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, Rime of Sire Tophas, 1. 34. 

Roses — Like a vase in which roses have once been distilled, 
You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, 
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. 

Moore, Farewell! but whenever you welcome the Hour. 
Ross — Rise, honest Muse ! and sing the man of Ross. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. iii. 1. 250. 
Rough — 'Tis the same with common natures : 
Use 'em kindly, they rebel ; 
But be as rough as nutmeg-graters, 
And the rogues obey you well. 

A. Hill, Verses written on a window in Scotland. 
Round — I will a round, unvarnished tale deliver 

Of my whole course of love. Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. 3. 

Rowland — " A Rowland for an Oliver."\ 

* She is the violet, 

The daisy delectable, 

The columbine commendable, 

The jelofer aimiable : 

This most goodly floure, 

This blossome of fresche colonre. 

Skeltox, Philip Sparoic. 
t These were two of the most famous in the list of Charlemagne's twelve 
peers ; and their exploits are rendered so ridiculously and equally extravagant 
by the old romancers, that from thence arose that saying amongst our plain 
and sensible ancestors of giving one a " Rowland for his Oliver," to signify the 
matching one incredible lie with another. — Thomas Warburtox. 



BUSIES— RUN. 279 

Rubies — Some asked me where the rubies grew. 
And nothing I did say, 

But with my linger pointed to 
The lips of Julia. 

Herrick, The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls] 

Rubies — The price of wisdom is above rubies. Job xxviii. is. 

Rude — Rude am I in my speech 

And little bless' d with the soft phrase of peace. 

Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. 3. 

Rude — Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, 
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. 

Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard. 

Ruffles — Such dainties to them their health it might hurt ; 
It's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shh-t* 

Goldsmith, The Haunch of Venison, 

Ruin — Final Ruin fiercely drives 

Her ploughshare o'er creation. f 

Young, Night Thoughts, night ix. 1. 167. 

Rules — She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, 
Or, if she rules him, never shoivs she rules, 
Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, 
Yet has her humour when she most obeys. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. ii. 1. 261. 

Rumination — It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of 

many simples, which, by often rinnino.tion, wraps me 

in a most humorous sadness. 

Shaks. As You Like It, act iv. sc. l. 

Run — Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet 
To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. 

Pope, Horace, bk. ii. sat. i. 1. 69. 

Run — Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may 
run that readeth it. J Hab. ii. 2. 



* If your friend is in want, don't carry him to the tavern, where you treat 
yourself as well as him, and entail a thirst and headache upon him next morn- 
ing. To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy and fill his snuff-box, 
is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his 
back. — Tom Browv. 

f Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate 

Full on thy bloom. Burxs, To a Mountain Daisy. 

I See pp. 176, 280. 



280 RUNS— RUSTIC. 

Runs — So runs my dream : but what am I ? 
An infant crying in the night, 
An infant crying for the light, 
And with no language but a cry. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, can. liii. 

Runs — So runs the round of life from hour to hour. 

Tennyson, Works, p. 57. 

Runs — But truths on which depends our main concern, 
That is our shame and misery not to learn, 
Shine by the side of every path we tread 
With such a lustre, he that runs may read. 

Cowper, Tirocinium, 1. 77. 

Rupert — One after one, the lords of time advance ; 
Here Stanley meets, — now Stanley scorns the glance, 
The brilliant chief, irregularly great, 
Frank, haughty, rash, — the Rupert of debate. 

Bulwer Lytton, New Timon, pt. i. st. 6. 

Rural — Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds 
Exhilarate the spirit, and restore 
The tone of languid Nature. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. i. The Sofa. 

Russia — This will last out a night in Russia, 
When nights are longest there. 

Shaks. Measure for Measure, act ii. sc. 1. 

Rustic — And many a holy text around she strews, 
That teach the rustic moralist to die. 

Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard. 




SABBA TH— SAINT. 




ABBA TH — Did wisely from expensive sins refrain, 
And never broke the Sabbath but for gain. 

Dryden, Absalom and AchitopheJ, 1. 557, 

Sabbath — Hail, Sabbath ! thee I hail, the poor man's 

day. Grahame, The Sabbath, 1. 40. 

Sack — Oh, monstrous ! but one halfpenny-worth of bread to this 
intolerable deal of sack. 

Shaes. K. Henri/ IV, part i. act ii. sc. i. 

Sad — And nothing can we call our own hut death, 
And that small module of the barren earth 
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones, 
For Heaven's sake, let us sit upon the ground, 
And tell sad stones of the death of kings. 

Shaes. K. Richard II, act iii. sc, 2. 

Sadder — A sadder and a wiser man 
He rose the morrow morn. Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner. 

Sages — When sages look' d to Egypt for their lore.' 

Keats, Hyperion. 

Sail — Nail to the mast her holy flag, 
Set every threadbare sail, 
And give her to the God of Storms, 

The lightning and the gale. 0. W. Holmes, A Metrical Essay. 

Saint — The saint sustained it, but the woman died. 

Pope, Epitaph on Mrs. Corbet. 

Saint — "Odious ! in woollen ! 't would a saint provoke," 
Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. i. 1. 216. 



282 SAINTS— SA TANIC. 

Saints — Just men by whom impartial laws were given, 
And Saints who taught and led the way to Heaven* 

Tickell, Ep. to the Earl of Warwick on the 
Death of Mr. Addison. 

Sally — Of all the girls that are so smart, 

There's none like pretty Sally. f H. Carey, Sally in our Alley. 

Salvation — About some act 

That has no relish of salvation int. Shaks. Ham. act iii. sc. 3. 

Samphire — Half-way down 

Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! 

Methinks he seems no bigger than his head : 

The fishermen that walk upon the beach 

Appear like mice. Shaks. K. Lear, act iv. sc. 6. 

Sang — Perhaps it may turn out a sang, 

Perhaps turn out a sermon. Burns, Ep. to a Young Friend. 

Sapphire — The living throne, the sapphire blaze. 
Where angels tremble while they gaze, 
He saw, but, blasted with excess of light, 
Closed his eyes in endless night. 

Gray, The Progress of Poesy, pt. iii. st. 2. 

Satan — For Satan finds some mischief still 

For idle hands to do. Watts, Divine Songs, song xx. 

Satan — Satan ; so call him now, his former name 
Is heard no more in Heaven. 

Miltox, Paradise Lost, bk. v. 1. 658. 

Satanic school — The Satanic school.X 

Southey, From the orig. Pref. to the Vision of Judgment. 



* Allured to brighter worlds and led the way. Goldsmith. 

t Of all the girls that e'er was seen, 
There's none so fine as Nelly. 

Swift, Ballad on 31iss Nelly Bennet. 
I Satanic school, a name first applied by Robert Southey, and often given 
to a class of writers whose productions are characterized by an impatience of 
all restraint, an extravagant strain of sentimentality, a presumptuous scorn of 
all moral obligations, as well as of the holiest truths of religion ; " they labour 
to make others as miserable as themselves, by infecting them with a moral 
virus that eats into the soul." " Werther and Gfoetz von Berlichingen have 
produced incalculable effects, which now, indeed, however some departing 
echo of them may linger in the wrecks of our own moss trooper and Satanic 
schools, do at length all happily lie behind us." — Carlyle, Wheeler's Noted 
Names of Fiction. 



SA TIRES C HEMES. 283 

Satire — Satire should, like a polish'd razor, keen, 
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen; 
Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews; 
The rage but not the talent to abuse ; 
And is in hate what love is in the stews. 

Lady 2J. W. Momtagu and Lord Hervey.* 

•' Satire — Satire has always shone among the rest, 
And is the boldest way, if not the best, 
To tell men freely of their foulest faults, 
To laugh at their vain deeds, and vainer thoughts. 

Drydex, Essay upon Satire, 1. u. 

Satire — For pointed satire I would Buckhurst choose — 
The best good man with the worst-natured Muse. 

Eochester, Horace, bk. i. sat. x. 

Sauce — "What is sauce for a goose is sauce iov a gander. 

Tom Brown, New Maxims, Works, vol. iv. p. 123. 

Saw — Saw ye my wee thing, saw ye my ain thing, 
Saw ye my true love down on yon lea? 
Eed, red are her ripe lips, and sweeter than roses; 
Where could my wee thing wander frae me? 

Hector Macneel, Mary of CastJecary. 

Saw — For I saw those that saw the queen. Swift, On Himself. 

Saw — I sette not an bawe 

Of his proverbes, ne of his old sawe. 

Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, 1. 6242. 
Saxon — Dazzled village youths to-day 

Will crowd to take the Saxon shilling. 

K. T. Buggy, Nation Newspaper. 
Scandal — Xo scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope. 

Sheridan, The Critic, act i. sc. 1. 
Scars — He jests at scars that never felt a wound. 

Shaks. Borneo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 2. 
Schemes — The best-laid schemes o' mice and men 

Gang aft a-gley. BrRNS, To a Mouse. 



* Entitled. " Verses addressed to the Imitator of the first Satire of the 
second book of Horace/' i. e. Pope ; bitter enough are the following: — 
If limbs unbroken, skin without a stain, 
Unwhipt, unblanketed. unkicked, unslain, 
That wretched little carcass you retain, 
The reason is not that the world wants eyes, 
But thou'rt so mean, they see, and they despise ! 



284 SCHOOLMASTER— SEA. 

Schoolmaster — Let the soldier be abroad if lie will: he can do 
nothing in this age. There is another personage, a personage less 
imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The school- 
smaster is abroad ; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, 
against the soldier in full military array. 

Lord Brougham, Speech, Jan. 29th, 1828. 

Science — Science falsely so called. i Tim. vi. 20. 

Science — O star-eyed science! hast thou wandered there, 
To waft us home the message of despair ? 

Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, pt. ii. 1. 325. 

Scorn — He will laugh thee to scorn. Ecclus. xiii. 7. 

Scotched — We have scotched the snake, not killed it. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act iii. sc. 2. 
Scourge — "When the scourge 

Inexorably, and the torturing hour, 

Calls us to penance. Mtltox, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. 90. 

Scraps — Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, 
And think they grow immortal as they quote. 

Young, Love of Fame, sat. i. 1. 89. 
Scribble — Fond of the Muse, to her devote my days, 
And scribble, not for pudding, but for praise. 

Blacklock, The Author s Picture. 
Scribble — Who daily scribble for your daily bread. 

Byrox, Eng. Bards and Scot. Rev. 
Scrofulous — my scrofulous French novel, 
On grey paper with blunt type, 
Simply glance at it, you grovel 

Hand and foot in Belial's gripe ! Browxixg, Spanish Cloister. 
'Sdeath — Fired that the house rejects him, ((, Sdeath I'll print it, 
And shame the fools ; your interest, sir, with Lintot." 

Pope, Ep. to Dr. Arbuthnot, 1. 61. 
Sea — We were the first that ever burst 

Into that silent sea. Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, pt. ii. 

Sea — Sea of upturned faces* Scott, Rob Roy, ch. 20. 

Sea — Virtue could see to do what Virtue would 
By her own radiant light, though sun and moon 
Were in the flat sea sunk. Milton, Comus, 1. 373. 



* The people whose appearance I can compare to nothing but a pavement 
of heads and faces. — J. Hehlxg, Account of the Coronation^of George III. 



SEA—SEA TED. 285 

Sea — TThile the hollow oak our palace is, 

Our heritage the Sea. Allan Cunningham, Songs. 

Sea — He dies, unlike his mates, I ween, 
Perhaps not sooner or worse cross'd; 
But he hath known and felt and seen 
A larger life and hope, though lost 
Fa?' out at sea. Horxe, Butterfly at Sea. 

Sea — To thee the love of woman hath gone down ; 
Dark flow thy tides o'er manhood's noble head, 
O'er youth's bright locks, and beauty's flowery crown ! 

Yet must thou hear a voice, — Eestore the Dead ! 
Earth shall reclaim her precious things from thee ! — 
Restore the Dead, thou Sea I 

Hemans, Treasures of the Deep. 
Sea — O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, 
Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free; 
Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, 
Survey our empire, and behold our home. 

Byron, The Corsair, can. i. st. 1. 

Sea -'maid's music — And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, 
To hear the sea-maid's music. 

Shaks. Midsummer- Night's Dream, act ii. sc. 2.# 

Seals — Take, take those lips away 

That so sweetly were forsworn ; 

And those eyes, the break of day, 

Lights that do mislead the morn ; 
But my kisses bring again, bring again, 
Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.* 

Shaks. Measure for Measure, act iv. sc. 1. 
Seas — My hand will rather 

The multitudinous seas incarnadine, 

Making the green one red. Shaks. Macbeth, act ii. sc. 2. 

Season — To everything there is a season, and a time to every pur- 
pose under the heaven. Eccles. iii. 1. 
Seasoned — Only a sweet and virtuous soul, 

Like seasoned timber, never gives. Herbert, Virtue. 

Seated — And make my seated heart knock at my ribs. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 3. 

* This song is found in " The Bloody Brother ; or, Rollo, Duke of Xor- 
mandy," by Beaumont and Fletcher, act v. sc. 2. 



286 SECOND— SEEMS. 

' Second — The sober second thought of the people is seldom wrong, 
and always efficient. President Van Burex, Despatches. 

Second — For second thoughts } you know, are best. 

Dobsley, Collection, vol. v. 

Sect — Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, 
But looks through Xature up to Nature's God.* 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. 331. 

Secret — To win the secret of a iveed 's plain heart. 

Lowell, Sonnet xxv. 

Secret — The secret things belong unto the Lord our God. 

Deut. xxix. 29. 

Secrets — But that I am forbid 

To tell the secrets of my prison-house, 
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word 
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, 
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, 
Thy knotted and combined locks to part. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 5. 

See — See, my lips tremble, and my eyeballs roll ; 
• Suck my last breath, and catch my flying soul. 

Pope, Elo'isa to Abelard, 1. 32*. 

See — Oh wad some power the giftie gie us, 
To see oursels as ithers see us, 
It wad frae mony a blunder free us, 

And foolish notion. Burns, To a Louse. 

See — See, the conquering hero comes ; 
Sound the trumpet, beat the drums. 

JSat\ Lee, Alexander the Great, act ii. sc. 1. 

Seeds — If you can look into the seeds of time, 

And say which grain will grow, and which will not. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 3. 

Seems — Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not " seems." 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. 



* You will find that it is the modest, not the presumptuous inquirer, who 
makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows 
Nature, and Nature's G-od ; that is, he follows God in His works and in His 
word.— BoLiXGBROKE, A Letter to Mr, Pope. 



SELDOM— SEE VILE. 287 

Seldom — Seldom he smiles ; and smiles in such a sort, 
As if he mocked himself, and scorned his spirit, 
That could be moved to smile at anything. 

Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act i, sc. 2. 

Seldom — For seldom shall she hear a tale 
So sad, so tender, and so true. W". Shenstone, Jemmy Dawson. 

Self — Enough of self, f hat dcdlying luscious theme, 
? er which philosophers in raptures dream ; 
Of which with seeming disregard they write, 
Then prizing most when most they seem to slight. 

Churchill, Candidate, 1. 117. 

Sell — ( ' Not think they'd shave!" quoth Hodge with wond'ring 

eves, 
And voice not much unlike an Indian yell : 
" What were they made for then, you dog ? ,J he cries: — • 
u Made" quoth the fellow, with a smile, " to sett" 

TTolcott, (P. Pindar), Odes, ode iii. 

Sempronius — 'Tis not in mortals to command success; 
But we'll do more, Sempronius : we'll deserve it, 

Addison, Cato, act i. sc. 2. 

Senators- — Those green-robed senators of 'mighty woods, 
Tall oaks, branch- charmed by the earnest stars, 
Dream, and so dream all night without a stir, 

Keats, Hyperion, 

Sentries — Ye quenchless stars ! so eloquently bright, 
Untroubled sentries of the shadowy night. 

Robert Montgomery, Starry Heaven. 

Serpent — What ! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice ? 

^hahs. Mer. of Venice, act iv. sc. 1. 

Serpent — Now will I shew myself to have more of the serpent than 
the dove ; that is, more knave than fool. 

Marlowe, Jew of Malta, act ii. sc. 2. 

Serpent — -But the trail of the serpent is over them all. 

Moore, Paradise and the Peri. 

Service — I have done the state some service, and they know it. 

Shaks. Othello, act v. sc. 2. 

Servile — Servile to all the skyey influences. 

Shaks. Meets, for Meas, act iii, sc. 1. 



288 SET— SHADE. 

Set — I burn to set the imprisoned icranglers free, 
And give them voice and utterance once again. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. iv. Winter Evening. 

Set — Set thine house in order, - Isaiah xxxviii. 1. 

Settle's numbers — Xow, night descending, the proud scene was o'er, 
But lived in Settle's numbers one day more. 

Pope, The Dunciad, bk. i. 1. 89. 

Seven — Seven hours to Jaw, to soothing slumber seven, 
Ten to the world allot, and all to Heaven. 

Sir W. Jones, Ode in Imitation of Alcaus. 

Sex — She hugged th' offender, and forgave th' offence. 

Sex to the last. Drydex, Cymon and Iphigenia, 1. 367. 

Shade — Xor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed 
A fairer spirit or more welcome shade* 

Tickell, On the Death of Addison, 1. 45. 

Shade — for a lodge-in some vast wilderness, 
Some boundless contiguity of shade, 
Where rumour of oppression and deceit, 
Of unsuccessful or successful war, 
Might never reach me more.-f 

Cowper, The Task, bk. ii. The Timepiece. 

Shade — As half in shade and half in sun 
This world along its path advances, 
May that side the sun's upon 

Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances ! 

Moore, Peace be around thee. 

Shade — The hunter and the deer a shade. 

Campbell, O' Connor's Child, st. iv. 

Shade — Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade 
Of that which once was great is passed away. 

Wordsworth, Sonnets to National Independence and 
Liberty, pt. i. 1. 6. 



* The two previous lines are quoted in the Quarterly Review, No. 209 :• 
Ne'er to these chambers, where the mighty rest, 
Since their foundation came a nobler guest. 

t Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place. — Jer. ix. 2. 



SHADE— SHE. 289 

Shade — Shade, unpereeived, so softening into shade. 

Thomson, The Seasons, Winter, 1. 25. 
Shadow — The swan on still St. Mary's Lake 
Floats double — swan and shadow ! 

Wordsworth, Yarrow Revisited. 
Shadows — What shadows we are, what shadows we pursue ! 

Burke, Speech at Bristol on declining the Poll, 1780. 
Shadows — When I recall my youth ; what I was then, 
What I am now, ye beloved ones all, 
It seems as though these were the living men, 
And we the coloured shadows on the wall. Milnes, Poems, 

Shadwell — But Shadwell never deviates into sense. 

Dryden, MacFlecknoe, 1. 20 
Shaft — many a shaft, at random sent, 
Finds mark the archer little meant ! 
And many a word at random spoken 
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken. 

Scott, The Lord of the Isles, can. v. st. 18. 
Shake — Would shake hands with the king upon his throne, 

And think it kindness to his majesty. Halleck, Connecticut. 
Shaken — When taken, 
To be well shaken. 

Geo. Colman (the younger), The Newcastle Apothecary. 

Shakespeare' 's magic — But Shakespeare' s magic could not copied be ; 
Within that circle none durst walk but he. 

Dryden, The Tempest, Prologue. 
Shakespeare's name — And rival all but Shakespeare's name below. 
Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, pt. i. 1. 472. 
Shape — Be thy intents wicked or charitable, 
Thou comest in such a questionable shape, 
That I will speak to thee. Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 4. 

Shape — Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves 

Shall never tremble. Shaks. Macbeth, act iii. sc. 4. 

She — She ivas a form of life and light 
That, seen, became a part of sight, 
And rose where'er I turned mine eye, 
The morning-star of memory. 
Yes, love, indeed, is light from heaven ; 

A spark of that immortal fire, 
With angels shared, by Allah given, 

To lift from earth our low desire. Byron, The Giaour, 1. 1721. 
u 



290 SHE— SHIPS. 

She — He raised a mortal to the skies, 

She drew an angel down. Drydex, Alexander's Feast, 1. 169. 

She — Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide, — 
In part she is to blame that has been tried : 
He comes too near that comes to be denied.* 

Lady M. W. Montagu, The Lady's Besolve. 

She — She's pretty to walk with, 
And witty to talk with, 
And pleasant, too, to think on. Sir J. Suckling, Brennoralt. 

Shell — The soul of music slumbers in the shell, 
Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; 
And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour 
A thousand melodies unheard before ! Rogers, Human Life, 

Shell — But all n'is icorthe a nutte shale. 

Gower, Confessio Ainantis, m. 

Shelter — Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all 
That shared its shelter perish in its fall. 

Wm. Pitt, Anti-Jacobin, p. hk. 

Shepherd's boy — Here a shepherd's boy piping as though he never 
should bee old. Sidney, Arcadia, bk. i. 

Shielded — A shielded scutcheon blushed with blood of queens and 
kings. Keats, St. Agnes' Eve. 

Shikspur — Kitty. Shikspur? Shikspur? Who wrote it? No, I 
never read Shikspur. 

Lady Bab. Then you have an immense pleasure to come. 

J. Towxley, High Life below Stairs, act ii. sc. 1. 

Ship — He was the mildest-mannered man 
That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat. 

Byron, Don Juan, can. iii. st. 41. 

Ships — Ships, dim-discovered, dropping from the clouds. 

Thomson, The Seaso?is, Summer, 1. 946. 



" The Lady's Resolve " was a fugitive piece, written on a window, by Lady 
M°ntagu, after her marriage (1718). The last lines were taken from Over- 
bury : — 

" In part to blame is she 
Which hath, without consent, been only tried: 
He comes too near that comes to be denied." 

The Wife, st. 86. 



SHOCK—SIGH. 291 

Shock — Better to sink beneath the shock 

Than moulder piecemeal on the rock. Byrox, The Giaour,\. 969. 

Shoe — But, from the hoop's bewitching round, 
Her very shoe has power to wound . 

Moore, fable x. The Spider and the Bee. 

Shoe — " Where the shoe pinches/' * 

Shore — Along thy wild and willowed shore. 

Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, can. iv. st. 1. 

Show — This world is all a fleeting show, 
For man's illusion given; 
The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, 
Deceitful shine, deceitful flow : 
There's nothing true but Heaven. 

Moore, The World is all a Fleeting Show. 

Shrewsbury — Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying ! I grant 
you, I was down, and out of breath, and so was he ; but we rose 
at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. 

Shaks. K. Henry LV, part i. act y. sc. 4. 

Shrine — Shrine of the mighty I can it be 

That this is all remains of thee? Byro>~, The Giaour, 1. 106. 

Shut — " Shut, shut the door, o-ood John,"'' fatigued, I said. 

Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, 1. i. 

Shut — Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, 
And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. 

Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard. 

Sidney — Sidney, warbler of poetic prose. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. iv. Winter Evening, 

Sigh — Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more : 
Men were deceivers ever ; 
One foot in sea, and one on shore, 
To one thing constant never, f 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act ii. sc. 3. 



* In the Life of -Emilius Paulus, Plutarch relates the story of a Roman being 
divorced from his wife. " This person being highly blamed by his friends, 
who demanded ' Was 5 he not chaste ! Was she not fair V holding: out his shoe, 
he asked them whether it was not new and well made. Yet, added he, none 
of you can tell where it pinches." 

t See also Percys Reliques, •■ The Friar of Orders Grey." 



292 SIGH—SILOA'S BROOK. 

Sigh — Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 

Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard. 

Sighed — Sighed and looked, and sighed again. 

Dkyden, Alexander s Feast, 1. 120. 

Sighed — Sighed and looked unutterable things. 

Thomson, The Seasons, Summer, 1. nss. 

Sight — Who ever loved that loved not at first sight* 

Marlowe, Hero and Leander. 

Sight — And out of mind as soon as oat ofsight.-f 

Lord Brooke, Sonnets, son. lvi. 

Silence — Silence is the perfectest herald of joy ; I were but little 
happy if I could say how much. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act ii. sc. 1. 

Silence — Silence gives consent. Fuller, Wise Sentences. 

Silence — Silence is a virtue; marry, 'tis a dumb virtue. I love 
virtue that speaks, and has a long tongue, like a bell-wether, to 
lead other virtues after it. 

T. Dekker and others, Patient Grissil, act i. sc. 1. 

Silent — Silent all three went in; about 
All three turn'd, silent, and went out. 

Churchill, Ghost, bk. ii. 1. so:. 

Sile?it — Spires whose " silent finger points to Heaven."% 

Wordsworth, The Excursion, bk. vi. 

Silk — And ye shall walk in silk attire, 
And siller hae to spare, 
Gin ye'll consent to be his bride, 
!Nor think 0' Donald mair. 

Miss Blamire of Thackwood, And ye shall icalk, &c. 

Siloa's brook — If Sion-hill 

Delight thee more, and Siloas brook, that flowed 

Fast by the oracle of God. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 10. 



* Quoted by Shakespeare, As You Like It, act iii. sc. 0. 

t Quurn autem sublatus fuerit ab oculis, etiain cito transit a mente. 

Kempis, Imitation of Christ, bk. i. 23. 

I An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in fiat countries 
with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point 
up with silent finger to the sky and stars.— Coleridge, The Friend, Xo. 14. 



SILO AM' S BILL— SINNE. 293 

Siloanrs rill — By cool Siloanis shady rill 
How sweet the lily grows ! 

Heber, First Sunday after Epiphany, no. ii. 

Silver — Mine is no horse with wings, to gain 
The region of the spheral chime ; 
He does but drag a rumbling wain, 
Cheered by the stiver bells of rhyme. 

C. Patmore, Angel in the House, i. 
Simon — The real Simon pure* 

Cextlivre, A Bold Stroke for a Wife, act v. sc 1. 

Simplicity — Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; 

In wit a man, simplicity a child, f Pope, Ep. on Gay. 

Sinews — Victuals and ammunition 

And money, too, the sinews of the war, 

Are stored up. \ Beaumo>*t and Fletcher, Fair Maid, act i. sc. 2. 

Sinful — A sinful heart makes feeble hand. 

Scott, Marmion, can. vi. 1. 31. 

Singing — For, lo, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone; 

the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds 

is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. 

The Song of Solomon ii. 11, 12. 
Sinne — Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round ! 

Parents first season us, then schoolmasters 

Deliver us to laws ; they send us bound 

To rules of reason, holy messengers, 

Pulpits and Sundayes, sorrow dogging sinne, 

Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes ; 

Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in ; 

Bibles laid open, millions of surprises, 

Blessings beforehand, tyes of gratefulnesse, 

The sound of glorie ringing in our ears; 

Without our shame, within our consciences, 

Angels of grace, eternal hopes and fears : 

Yet all these fences and their whole array 

One ciaming bosome sinne blows quite away. 

George Herbert, Sinne. 

* The passage occurs in a letter to Obadiah Prim, warning him that an 
impostor will call upon him dressed as Simon Pure, in order to induce him 
to kick ont the real Simon Pure. 

t Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. 

Dryde;x, Elegy on Mrs. Killigrew. 

I Plutarch says (Cleomenes, c. 27), " He who first called money the sinews 
of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war." 



294 SINNED— SLA UGHTER. 

Sinned — I am a man 

More sinned against than sinning. Shaks. K. Lear, act iii. sc. 2. 

Sires — Few sons attain the place 

Of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace. 

Pope, Odyssey, bk. ii. 1. 315. 

Sirups — And lucent sirups, tinct with cinnamon. 

Keats, St. Agnes' Eve, st. 30. 

Spirit — Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, 

Sister spirit, come away ! Pope, The Dying Christian to his Soul. 

Sit — I take possession of man's mind and deed, 
I care not what the sects may brawl ; 
I sit as God, holding no form of creed, 

But contemplating all. Tennyson, Palace of Art. 

Six — Grave Jonas Kyndred, Sybil Kyndred' s sire, 
Was six feet high, and look'd six inches higher; 
Erect, morose, determin'd, solemn, slow, 
Who knew the man would never cease to know. 

Crabbe, Tales, tale vi. ver. 1. 

Skin — I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. Job xix. 20. 

Skirmish — A skirmish of wit between them. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act i. sc. 1, 

Sky — Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, 
And souls are ripened in our northern sky. 

Mrs. Barbauld, The Invitation. 
Sky — A violet by a mossy stone 
Half hidden from the eye ! 
Fair as a star, when only one 

Is shining in the sky. Wordsworth, Lucy. 

Sky — Thy spirit, Independence, let me share; 
Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye, 
Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, 

Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. 

Smollett, Ode to Independence. 

Sky — The soft blue sky did never melt 
Into his heart ; he never felt 
The witchery of the soft blue sky. 

Wordsworth, Peter Bell, pt. i. st. 15. 

Slaughter — He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter. Isaiah liii. 7. 



SLAVE— SLEEP. 295 

Slave — Slave of the dark and dirty mine! 
What vanity hath brought thee here ? 
How can I love to see thee shine 

So bright whom I have bought so dear ? 

John Leydex, On an Indian Gold Coin. 

Slave — I would not have a slave to till my ground. 
To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 
And tremble while I wake, for all the wealth 
That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. ii. The Timepiece. 

Slavery — Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still 
thou art a bitter draught. Sterne, Sent. Journey, The Passport. 

Slaves — Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs 
Keceive our air, that moment they are free ; 
They touch our country and their shackles fall.* 

Cowper, The Task, bk. ii. The Timepiece. 

Sleep — magic sleep ! comfortable bird 

That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind 

Till it is hushed and smooth ! Keats, Endymion. 

Sleep — Sleep breathes at last from out thee, 

My little, patient boy. Leigh Hunt, To T. L. II. 

Sleep — Now blessings light on him that first invented sleep ! it covers 
a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak ; it is meat for the 
hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the 
hot. Cervantes, Don Quixote, pt. ii. ch. 67. 

Sleep — He giveth his beloved sleep. Psalm cxxvii. 2. 

Sleep — And sleep in dull, cold marble. 

Shaks. K. Henry VIII, act iii. sc. 2. 

Sleep — Sir hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, 
Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix. 

Translation of Lines quoted by Sir Edward Coke. 

Sleep — Thou hast been called, sleep! the friend of woe; 
But 'tis the happy that have called thee so. 

R. Southey, The Curse ofKehama, can. xv. 

Sleep — Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, 
Morn of toil, nor night of waking. 

Scott, 'The Lady of the Lake, can. i. st. 31. 

* Servi peregrini, ut primum Galliae fines penetraverint eodem momento 
libtri sunt. — Bodinus, lib. i. cap. 5. 



296 SLEEP— SMALL. 

Sleep — Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! 

Young, Night Thoughts, night LLi. 

Sleep — Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep. 

Pope, The Dunciad, bk. i. 1. 94. 

Sleep — Ton sun, 

Lights it the great alone ? Ton silver beams, 
Sleep they less sweetly on the cottage thatch 
Than on the dome of kings ? 

Shelley, Queen Mab, iii. I. 226. 

Sleep — Soon the shroud shall lap thee fast, 
And the sleep be on thee cast 
That shall ne'er know waking. 

Scott, Guy Mannering, ch. xxvii. 

Sleeps — Sweet tastes have sour closes ; 

And he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. 

Quarles, Emb. bk. i. no. 7. 

Slept — For aye unsought-for slept among his ashes cold. 

Keats, St. Agnes' Eve. 

Slide — Slide comfortably away sad hours. 

Lady K. Russell, Letter XVII, to Dr. Fitzwilliam. 

Slippery — And he that stands upon a slippery place 
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. 

Shaks. K. John, act iii. sc. 4. 

Slow — This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, 

Slow rises worth by poverty depressed. Johnson, London, 1. ire. 

Slow — Slow and steady wins the race. 

Lloyd, Fables, Hare and Tortoise. 

Sluggard — Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and 
be wise. Prov. vi. 6. 

Sluggard — 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, 
"Tou have waked me too soon, I must slumber again." 

"Watts, The Sluggard. 

Small — Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; 
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, 
And trifles life. Young, Love of Fame, sat. vi. 1. 208. 

Small — Compare great things with small. 

Virgil, Georgics, bk. iv. 1. 176. Milton, Paradise Lost, 
bk. ii. 1. 921. Cowley. The Motto. Tickell, Poem on 
Hunting. Pope, Windsor Forest. 



SMALL— SOLEMN. 297 

Small — In small proportions we just beauties see, 
And in short measure life may perfect be. 

B. Joxsox, Underwoods. 

Smallest — The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. 

Soaks. K. Henri/ VI, part iii. act ii. sc. 2. 

Smell — The rankest compound of rillanous smell that ever offended 
nostril. Shahs. Merry Wives of Windsor, act iii. sc. 5. 

Smells — mv offence is rank, it smells to Heaven. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 3. 

Smile — My tables, my tables, — meet it is I set it down, 
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain. 

Ibid, act i. sc. 5. 

Smile — "Without the smile from partial beauty won, 
what were man? — a world without a sun. 

Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, pt. ii. 1. 21. 

Smile — The slow wise smile that round about 
His dusty forehead drily curled 
Seemed half within and half without, 
And full of dealings with the world. 

Texxysox, Miller's Daughter. 

Sm iles — Sm iles from reason flo w, 

To brute denied, and are of love the food.* 

Miltox, Paradise Lost, bk. ix. 1. 239. 

Smote — Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all its chords 
with might; 
Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of 
sight. Texxysox, Locksley Hall. 

So — So many worlds, so much to do, 
So little done, such things to be. 

Texxysox, In Memoriam, lxxii. 

Soft — I own the soft impeachment . 

Sheeidax, The Rivals, act y. sc. 3. 

Solemn — And when this solemn mockery is o'er.f 

Irelaxd, Vortigern, act iii. 



* Quoted by Steele in The Guardian, Xo. 29. 

t It was this line, pronounced by the actor with a sneering vehemence, to 
mark his (Kemble's) disbelief in the authenticity of the play, that led to the 
discovery of the forgery. 



298 SOLITARY— SONG. 

Solitary — Be not solitary, be not idle. 

Burton, Anat. Mel. conclusion. 

Some — A ball now issues through the airy tides, 
{Some fairy winged it, and some demon guides !) 
Parts the fine locks her graceful head that deck, 
Wounds her fair ear and sinks into her neck. 

Darwin, Loves of the Plants. 

Some — Some said, " John, print it" others said, "Not so;" 
Some said, " It might do good," others said, ,€ No." 

Bunyan, Apology for his Book. 

So?ne — Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, 
The little tyrant of his fields withstood; 
Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, 
Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. 

Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard* 

Sometimes — Here thou, great Anna ! whom three realms obey, 
Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. 

Pope, Rape of the Lock, can iii. 1. 7. 

Son — Every one is the son of his own works. 

Cervantes, Don Quixote, pt. i. bk. i. chap. 4. 

Son — And all to leave what with his toil he won 
To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son. 

Dryden, Absalo?n and Achitophel, pt. i. 1. 169. 

Song — Stretched metre of an antique song. 

Shaks. Sonnets, son. xvii. 

Song — Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, 
No winter in thy year. J. Logan, To the Cuckoo. 

Song — I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I 
found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet. 

Sir Philip Sidney, The Defence of Poesy. 

Song — Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song. 

Waller, To Creech, 1. 10. 



* Hoic many a rustic Milton has passed by, 
Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, 
In unremitting drudgery and care!' 
How many a vulgar Cato has compelled 
His energies, no longer tameless then, 
To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail. Shelley, Mab, sect. 5. 



SOP HON I SB A — SOUL. 299 

Sophonisba — O Sophonisba I Sophonisba, ! * 

Thomson, Sophonisba, act iii. sc. 2. 

Sorrow — This house is to be let, for life or years ; 
Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears. 
Cupid, 't has long stood void ; her bills make known ; 
She must be dearly let, or let alone. 

Francis Quarles, Emblems, bk. ii. 10. 

Sorrow — There came a man, making his hasty moan 
Before the sultan Mahmoud on his throne, 
And crying out, " My sorrow is my right, 
And I will see the sultan, and to-night.' ' L. Hunt, Mahmoud. 

Sorrow — Sorrow more beautiful than beauty's self. 

Keats, Hyperion. 

Sorrow — But sorrow returned with the dawning of morn, 
And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. 

Campbell, The Soldier s Dream. 

Sorrow — Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, 
That has been, and may be again. 

Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper. 

Sorrows — Here I and sorrows sit ; 

Here is my throne : bid kings come bow to it. 

Shaks. King John, act iii. sc. 1. 

Soul — A happy soul, that all the way 
To heaven hath a summer's day. 

R. Crashaw, In Praise of Lessius' Rule of Health. 

Soul — Every subject's duty is the king's ; but every subject's 
soul is his own. Shaks. K. Henry V, act iv. sc. 1. 

Soul — For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, 
and lose his own soul ? Matt. xvi. 26. 

Soul — God ! it is a fearful thing 
To see the human soul take wing 
In any shape, in any mood. Byron, Prisoner of Chillon, viii. 

Soul — And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid 
up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. 

Luke xii. i9.f 



* The line was altered, after the second edition, to,- 

«' 0, Sophonisba! I am wholly thine." 
t See also Eccles. viii. 15. 



300 SOUL— SPARK. 

Soid — love, fire ! once he drew 
With one long kiss my -whole soul through 
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew. Tennyson, Fatima, st, 3. 

Soul — That unlettered, small-knowing soul. 

Shaks. Love's Labour s Lost, act i. sc. l. 

Soul — Thy sold was like a star, and dwelt apart. 

Wordsworth, Son. to Nat. Independ. and Liberty, bk. Ixiv. 

Soul — He had kept 

The whiteness of his soul,* and thus men o'er him wept. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iii. st. 57. 

Soul — Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, 

Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies. Byron, Beppo, st. 45. 

Soul — There lives and works 

A soul in all things ; and that soul is God.f 

Cowper, The Task, bk. vi. 1. 183. 

Soul's sunshine — The soul 's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy. 
Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. ios. 

Souls — Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once, 
And He that might the vantage best have took 
Found out the remedy. 

Shaks. Measure for Measure, act ii. sc. 2. 

Sound — And sound shall triumph over sense. 

Co wper, Conversa Hon . 

Source — Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. 

Gray, The Progress of Poesy, pt. iii. st. l. 

Soweth — Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 

Gal. vi. 7. 

Sown — For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the 
whirlwind. Hosea viii. 7. 

Spark — Vital spark of heavenly flame, 
Quit, quit this mortal frame ! 

Pope, The Dying Christian to his Soul. 

Spark — Bright gem, instinct with music, vocal spark. 

Wordsworth, A Morning Exercise. 



* Whiteness of name. — Beaumont and Fletcher, Elder Brother, act iv. 
t Nature is but a name for an effect 

Whose cause is God. Cowper, Task, bk. vi. 1. 223. 



SPARKS— SPHERE. 301 

Sparks — Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. 

Job v. :. 

Sparrow — There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. 2. 

Sparrow — Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, 

A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, 

Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, 

And now a bubble burst, and now a world. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. i. 1. 57. 
Sparrow — Pla ce bo, 

Who is there who ? 

Di le xi, 

Dame Marjeiy; 

Fa re my my, 

Wherfor and why, why ? 

For the soule of Philip Sparow, 

That was late slaine at Carrow. 

John Skeltox, Boke of Philip Sparow, 1. 1. 

Speak — Not to speak it profanely, Shaks. Hamlet, act iii, sc. 2. 

Speak — I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts ; 
I am no orator, as Brutus is, 

I only speak right on. 

Shaks. Julius C&sar, act iii. sc. 2. 

Spectator — The tame spectator of another s woe. 

Hoole's Metastasio, Demophoon. 

I Speech — Speech is silven, silence is gold. A Hutch Proverb. 

Speech — Thought is deeper than all speech; 
Feeling deeper than all thought ; 
Souls to souls can never teach 

What unto themselves was taught. C. P. Ceaxch, Stanzas. 

? Speech — " Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts."* 

Sphere — Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act v. sc. 4. 



* lis n'einployent les paroles que potir deguiser leur pensees. 

Voltaire, Dialogue xir. Le Chapoti et la Poidarde. 

When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism into circulation, he was in the 
habit of connecting it with some celebrated name, on the chance of reclaiming 
it if it took. Thus he assigned to Talleyrand, in the " Nain Jaune," the phrase, 
" Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts/' — Four:xjer, L' Esprit 
dans VHistoire. 



302 SPIDERS— SPLENDID. 

Spiders — I've lately had two spiders 
Crawling upon my startled hopes. ' 

Now, though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, 
Yet still they crawl offensive to my eyes ; 
I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em. 

Colley Cibber, Richard III, altered, act iv. sc. 3. 

Spirit — Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard 
Are sweeter ; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on ; 
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared, 
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. 

Ejeats, Ode to a Grecian Urn. 

Spirit — There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple : 
If the ill spirit have so fair a house, 
Good things will strive to dwell with 't. 

Shaks. Tempest, act i. sc. 2. 

Spirit — The spirit walks of every day deceased. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night ii. 1. iso. 

Spirit — This morning, like the spirit of a youth 
That means to be of note, begins betimes. 

Shaks. Antony and Cleopatra, act iv. sc. 4. 

Spirit — A wounded spirit who can bear? Prov. xviii. 14. 

Spirits — Spirits, when they please, 

Can either sex assume, or both. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 423. 

Spite — Yes, social friend, I love thee well, 
In learned doctor s spite ; 
Thy clouds all other clouds dispel, 

And lap me in delight. Charles Sprague, To my Cigar. 

Spite — And force them, though it was in spite 
Of nature and their stars, to write. 

Butler, Hudibras, part i. can. i. 1. 647. 

Spleen — There is a luxury in self-dispraise; 
And inward self-disparagement affords 
To meditative spleen a grateful feast. 

Wordsworth, The Excursion, bk. iv. 

Splendid — She seemed a splendid angel newly drest, 
Save wings, for heaven : — Porphyro grew faint ; 
She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint. 

Keats, St. Agnes' Eve. 



SPLENDID— ST A GE. 303 

Splendid — By Heaven ! it is a splendid sight to see, 
For one who hath no friend, no brother there. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. i. st. 40. 

Splenetive — For, though I am not splenetive and rash, 
Yet have I something in me dangerous. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. i. 

Spoils — They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors 
belong the spoils of the enemy. 

Speech in the United States' Senate, January 1832. 

Sponge — To drink no more than a sponge. 

Kabelais, ^Yorh:s, bk. i. chap. 5. 

Spoon — He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. 
Shaks. Com. Errors, act. iv. sc. 3. 

Spread — Masters, spread yourselves. 

Shaks. M 'idsummer-Xight > s Dream, act i. sc. 2. 

Spring — And the Spring comes slowly up this way. 

Coleridge, Christabel, pt. l. 

Spring — When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. 
Heber, Seventh Sunday after Trinity. 

Springes — Springes to catch woodcocks* 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 3. 

Square — If you choose to represent the various parts in life by 
holes upon a table, of different shapes, — some circular, some tri- 
angular, some square, some oblong, — and the persons acting 
these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally 
find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the 
oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed him- 
self into a round hole. Sydney Smith, W. W. p. 239. 

Staff— Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Psalm xxiii. 4. 

Stage — The stage darkened as the curtain fell. 

Scott, Life of Swift. 

Stage — Lo, where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, 
Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. 

Charles S Prague, Curiosity. 

Stage — Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage. 

Jomssox, Vanity of Human Wishes, 1. 30s. 

* A proverbial phrase. 



304 ST A GE—S TA TE. 

Stage — I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; 
A stage, where every man must play a part. 

Shaks. Merchant of Venice, act i. sc. 1. 

Stage — All the world's a stage,* 

And all the men and women merely players ; 
They have their exits, and their entrances, 
And one man in his time plays many parts, 
His acts being seven ages. 

Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. i. 

Stairs — Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, 
But — why did you kick me down stairs? 

I. Bickerstaff, ' Tis well if s no Worse. 

Stalk — Maidens withering on the stalk. 

Wordsworth, Personal Talk, st. 1. 

Stand — They also serve who only stand and wait. 

Milton, Sonnets, son. xix. 

Stand — Stand not upon the order of your going, 
But go at once. Shaks. Macbeth, act iii. sc. 4. 

Stands — Stands Scotland where it did? Ibid, act iv. sc. 3. 

Star — But He is risen, a later star of dawn. 

"Wordsworth, A Morning Exercise. 

Starry — That gems the starry girdle of the year. 

Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, part ii. 1. 194. 

Stars — Men at some time are masters of their fates ; 
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, 
But in ourselves, that we are underlings. 

Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act i. sc. 2. 

Stars — Oh, she is fairer than the evening air, 
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. 

Marlowe, Faust us (to Helen of Greece). 

Started — And then it started like a guilty thing 

Upon a fearful summons. Shaks. Hainlet, act i. sc. l. 

State — What constitutes a state? 

Sir William Joxes, Ode in Imitation ofAlcceus. 



: Alundus universus exercet histrionem. — Petromus Arbiter. 



S TA TE—S TEEP L E. 305 

State's icill — And sovereign law, — that state's collected ivill, — 
O'er thrones and globes elate, 
Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. 

Sir William Jones, Ode in Imitation of Alcceus. 

States — Take away the sword, 

States can be saved without it; bring the pen ! 

E. B. Lytto>", Richelieu, actii. sc. 2. 

Stay — Stay, oh stay, 
Joy so seldom wears a chain 
Like this to-night, that oh, 'tis pain, 

To break its links so soon. Moore, Songs, Fly not yet. 

Stayed — Or with a finger stayed Ixions wheel. Keats, Hyperion. 

Steady — Steady! steady! the masses of men 
Wheel, and fall in, and wheel again 
Softly as circles drawn with pen. 

Leigh Hunt, Captain Sword and Captain Pen. 

Steal — " Steal my thunder. " * 

Steal — I like the part you stole the best : 
Take courage, man, and steal the rest. Epigrams, 1720. 

Steal — Tears, following years, steal something every day ; 
At last they steal us from ourselves away. 

Pope, Horace, bk. ii. ep. ii. 1. 72. 

Steel — I'm armed with more than complete steel, + 

The justice of my quarrel. Lust's Dominion. 

Steel — My man's as true as steel. 

Shaks. Pomeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 4. 

Steeple — A man may cry Church ! Church ! at every word, 
With no more piety than other people ; 
A daw's not reckoned a religious bird 

Because it keeps a- caw big from a steeple. 

Hood, Ep. to Pae Wilson, Esq. 



* D'Israeli says. " The actors refused to perform one of John Dennis's 
tragedies to empty houses, but they retained some excellent thunder which 
Dennis had invented ; it rolled one night when Dennis was in the pit, and it 

was applauded. Suddenly starting up. he cried to the audience, ' By , 

they won't act my tragedy, but they steal my thunder/" — Calamities of Authors. 
I What may this mean, 

That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, 
Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon 1 

Shaks, Hamlet, act i. sc. 4. 
X 



306 STEEPLE— STONE. 

Steeple — At leaving even the most unpleasant people 
And places, one keeps looking at the steeple. 

Byron, Don Juan, can. ii. st. 14. 

Step — One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one 
step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.* 

Thos. Paine, Age of Reason, part ii. ad fin. (note). 

Stephen — As Stephen Sly, and old John Naps of Greece, 

And Peter Turf and Henry Pimpernell ; 

And twenty more such names and men as these, 

Which never were, nor no man ever saw. 

Shaks. Taming of the Shrew, Induction, sc. ii. 
Still — Still achieving, still pursuing, 

Learn to labour and to wait. Longfellow, A Psalm of Life. 

Still — A still small voice. 1 Kings xix. 12. 

Still — A still small voice spake unto me, 

Thou art so full of misery, 

Were it not better not to be ? Tennyson, Two Voices. 

Still — Still to be neat, still to be drest 
As you were going to a feast. 

Ben Jonson, The Silent Woman, act i. sc. 5. 
Stir— The fretful stir 

Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, 
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart. 

Wordsworth, Tintem Abbey. 

Stoic — A stoic of the icoods — a man without a tear. 

Campbell, Gertrude, pt. i. st. 23. 
Stomach — He was a man 

Of an unbounded stomach. 

Shaks. K. Henry VIII, act iv. sc. 2. 

Stomach 's sake — Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for 
thy stomach's sake. 1 Tim. v. 23. 

Stone — The stone that is rolling can gather no moss, 
For master and servant oft changing is loss. 

Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. 
Stone — u To leave no stone unturned." f 

* Probably the original of the celebrated mot given both to Napoleon and to 
Talleyrand, " Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas." 

t This may be traced to a response of the Delphic Oracle, given to Polycrates, 
as the best means of finding a treasure buried by Xerxes' general, Mardonius, 
on the field of Plateea. The Oracle replied, TlavTcc x/flov x/v«, Turn every stone. 



S T XE—S TR YE. 307 

Stone — Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, 
Thus unlamented let me die ; 
Steal from the world, and not a stone 

Tell where I lie. Pope, Ode on Solitude. 

Stood — So stood Eliza on the wood-crowned height. 
O'er Minden's plain, spectatress of the fight, 
Sought with bold eye amid the bloody strife 
Her dearer self, the partner of her life. 

Darwix, Loves of the Plants. 
Stones — Three stories high, long, dull, and old, 
As great lord's stories often are. 

Geo. Colman* (the younger), The Maid of the Moor. 

Story — Story ? God bless you, / have none to tell, sir ! 

Cakwtng, Needy Knife- Grinder. 

Straining — Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 5. 

Stranger — I have been a stranger in a strange land. Exod. ii. 22. 

Strawberries — We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of 
strait-berries : " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, 
but doubtless God never did :" and so, if I might be judge, God 
never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than 
angling. Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler, pt. i. ch. 5. 

Streamlet — No check, no stay this streamlet fears : 
How merrily it goes ! 
'Twill murmur on a thousand years, 

And flow as now it flows. "Wordsworth, The Fountain. 

Streets — There is a lion in the way ; a lion is in the streets. 

Prov. xxvi. 13. 
Strength — The king's name is a tower of strength. 

Shaks. K. Richard III. act v. sc. 3. 

— From the strife of tongues. Psalm xxxi. 20. 

Striving — Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. 

Shaks. King Lear, act i. sc. 4. 
Strolling — The strolling tribe, a despicable race. 

Churchill, Apology, 1. 206. 
Strove — I strove with none, for none was worth my strife: 
Xature I loved, and after Xature, Art : 
I warmed both hands before the fire of life : 
It sinks, and I am ready to depart. 

W. S. Laxdor, Last Leaves. 



308 STRUGGLING— SUIT. 

Struggling — Stiff-h olden shields, far-piercing spears, keen blades. 
Struggling, and blood, and shrieks. Keats, Endymion. 

Strutted — Strutted, looked big, and swaggered more 
Than ever hero did before. Churchill, Ghost, bk. iii. 1. 471. 

Stubborn — Arm the obdured breast 

With stubborn patience, as with triple steel. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. 568. 

Study — By labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion 
in this life), joined with the strong propense of nature, I might 
perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes as they should 
not willingly let it die. 

Milton, The Reason of Church Government, bk. ii. 

Stuff— Dost thou love life ? then do not squander time ; for that 
is the stuff life is made of. Ben. Franklin, Poor Richard. 

Successful — TThat can they see in the longest line in Europe save 
that it runs back to a successful soldier ? * 

Scott, Woodstock, vol. ii. p. 371. 

Such — Such mistress, such Nan, 
Such master, such man. 

Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, ch. 38. 

Suffer — Those who inflict must suffer ; for they see 
The work of their own heart, and they must be 
Our chastisement or our recompense. 

Shelley, Julian and Maddalo. 

Suffer— Know how sublime a thing it is 

To suffer and be strong. Longfellow, The Light of Stars. 

Suit — Lightly from fair to fair he flew, 
And loved to plead, lament, and sue ; 
Suit lightly icon, and short-lived pain, 
For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. 

Scott, Marmion, can. v. st. 9. 

Suit — Forget not yet when first began 
The weary life ye know, since whan 
The suit, the service none tell can ; 
Forget not yet ! 

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542). 

"* Le premier qui fut roy fut tin soldat heureux. — Racixe. 



5 ULLEIN—S UNFL O WER. 309 

Sullein — That cursed man, low sitting: on the ground, 
Musing full sadly in his sullein mind. 

Spenser, Faerie Queene, bk. i. can. ix. st. 35. 

Sullenness — In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is 
calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature 
not to go. out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with 
heaven and earth. Milton, Of Education. 

Sum — " Poor deer," quoth he, " thou mak'st a testament, 
As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more 
To that which had too much.'*' 

Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. 1. 

Sun — There is no new thing under the sun. Eccles. i. 9. 

Sun — But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteous- 
ness arise with healing in his wings. Mai. iv. 2, 

Sun — The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains 
as pure as before. 

Bacon, Advancement of Learning, bk. ii. chap. 2. 

Sun — Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the 
eyes to behold the sun. Eccles. xi. 7. 

Sun — Men shut their doors against the setting sun. 

Shaks. Timon of Athens, act i. sc. 2. 

Sun — To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes. 

Fielding, Tom Thumb, act i. sc. 2. 

Sunbeams — I hate to hear the ebb of time 
From yon dull steeple's drowsy chime, 
Or mark it as the sunbeams crawl 
Inch after inch along the wall. 

Scott, The Lady of the Lake, can. vi. st. 24. 

Sunday — Does not divide the Sunday from the week. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 1. 

Sunday— E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me. 

Pope, Ep, to Dr. Arbuthnot, 1. 12. 

Sunflower — Xo, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, 
But as truly loves on to the close ! 
As the sunflower turns on her god, when he sets, 
The same look which she turned when he rose. 

Moore, Believe me, if all those endearing, Sfc. 



310 SUNIUM— SWEAR. 

Sunium's steep — Place me on Sunium's 'marbled steep, 
AYhere nothing, save the waves and I, 
May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; 
There, swan-like, Jet me sing and die. 

Byron, Don Juan, can. iii. st. lxxxvi. v. is. 

Sunn?/ — A love that took an early root, 

And had an early doom, 
Like trees that never grow to fruit, 

And early shed their bloom 

Like ships that sailed for sunny isles, 

But never came to shore ! Anonymous, Love. 

Sunny — "With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks 
To lie and read in, sloping into brooks. 

Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini. 

Sunshine — The sunshine broken in the rill, 
Though turned astray, is sunshine still. 

Moore, Lalla Rookh, The Fire- Worshippers. 

Sunshine — The tear forgot as soon as shed, 
The simshine of the breast. 

Gray, On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. 

Supped — I have supped full with horrors. 

Shaks. Macbeth, act v. sc. 5. 

Surgical — It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a 
Scotch understanding. Their only idea of wit, or rather that 
inferior variety of this electric talent which prevails in theXorth, 
and which, under the name of wut, is so infinitely distressing * 
to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated in- 
tervals. Sydney Smith, Memoir. 

Swashing — We'll have a swashing and a martial outside. 

Shaks. As You Like It, act i. sc. 3. 

Swear — Odds life ! must one swear to the truth of a song ? 

Prior, A Better Answer. 

Swear — Romeo. Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear, 
That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops — 

Juliet. 0, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, 
That monthly changes in her circled orb, 
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 2. 

* Sydney Smith was fond of this expression, and used it frequently. 



SWEETS YL VIA. 311 

Sweet — Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, 
The bridal of the earth and sky. Geo. Herbert, Virtue. 

Sweet — Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, 

A box where sweets compacted lie. Ibid. 

Sweet — There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, 

To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. Dibdix, Poor Jack. 

Sweet — Sweet swan of Avon ! 

Bex Jonson, To the Memory of Shakespeare. 

Sweetness — And ever, against eating cares, 
Lap me in soft Lydian airs, 
Married to immortal verse, 
Such as the meeting soul may pierce 
In notes, with many a winding bout 
Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Milton, Z' Allegro, 1. 135. 

Sweets — Sweets to the sweet. Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. 1. 

Sweets — A icilderness of sweets. Miltox, Par. Lost, bk. v. 1. 294. 

Swinish — The swinish multitude. Burke, On the French Revolution. 

Sidneian — Sidneian showers of sweet discourse. 

Crashaw, In praise of Lessius' Pule of Health. 

Syllables — Syllables govern the world. Seldex, Power. 

Sylvia — Except I be by Sylvia in the night, 
There is no music in the nightingale. 

Shaks. Two Gentlemen of Verona, act iii. sc. 1. 






TAKE— TALE. 

AKE — Take her up tenderly, 
Lift her with care, 
Fashioned so slenderly, 
Young and so fair ! 

Hood, The Bridge of Sighs. 

Take — " Heat, ma'am," said I to Mrs. Jones, " it 
was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it 
but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones" 

Syd. Smith, W. W. p. 334. 

Take — The bell strikes one : we take no note of time 
But from its loss. Young, Night Thoughts, night i. 1. 55. 

Take — " There, take (says Justice), take ye each a shell : 
We thrive at Westminster on fools like you : 
'Twas a fat oyster — live in peace — adieu." 

Pope, Verbatim from Boileau. 

Tale — I cannot tell how the truth may be ; 
I say the tale as 'twas said to me. 

Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, can. ii. st. 22. 

Tale — A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour ! 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. ii. s.t. 22. 

Tale — We spend our years as a tale that is told, Ps. xc. 9. 

Tale — And thereby hangs a tale.* 

Shaks. Taming of the Shrew, act iv. sc. 1. 



* Othello, act iii. sc. 1. Merry Wives of Windsor, act i. sc. 4. As You Like 
It, act ii. sc. 7. 



TALK— TELL. 313 

Talk — Consider, I'm a peer of the realm, and I shall die if I don t 
talk. Keynolds, The Dramatist, act ii. sc. 2. 

Talk — Tliey never taste who always drink ; 
They always talk who never think. 

Prioe, On a Passage in the Scaligeriana. 

Task — But now my task is smoothly done, 
I can fly, or I can run. Milton, Comus, I. 1012. 

Tea — Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid ; thou 
female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink- 
tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest 
moment of my life, let me fall prostrate. 

Cibber, Lady's Last Stake, act i. sc. 1. 

Tears — The rain of heaven, and their own bitter tears, 
Tears and the careless rain of heaven, mixt 
Upon their faces. Tennyson, Aylmers Field. 

Tears — Some natural tears they dropt. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. xii. 1. 1006. 

Tears — What ! tears, my good old friend ! 

Gonz. But tears of joy. 

Congreve, Mourning Bride, act i. sc. 4. 

Tears — And often did beguile her of her tears. 

Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. 3. 

Tears — My tears must stop, for every drop 
Hinders needle and thread. Hood, Song of the Shirt. 

Tears — ■ The big round tears 

Cours'd one another down his innocent nose 
In piteous chase. Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. 1. 

Tears — If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. 

Shaks. Julius Casar, act iii. sc. 2. 

Tears — Thrice he assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, 
Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 619. 

Tears — To me the meanest flower that blows can give 
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. 

Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality, st. 11. 

Tell — Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? 

PorE, The Dying Christian to his Soul. 



314 TEMPER— THEY. 

Temper — Oh ! "blessed with temper, whose unclouded ray 

Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day. 

Pope, Moral Essays, ep. ii. 1. 257. 
Tempestuous — A winning wave deserving note, 

In the tempestuous petticoat. Herrick, Delight in Disorder. 

Ten — These equal syllables alone require, 
Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, 
While expletives their feeble aid do join, 
And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. ii. 1. 144. 

Ten — Ten years ago, ten years ago, 
Life was to us a fairy scene, 
And the keen blasts of worldly woe 

Had seared not then our pathway green. 

Alartc A. Watts, Songs. 
Tenor- — Along the cool sequestered vale of life, 
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 

Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard. 

Tented — In the tented field. Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. 3. 

Text — Haunting a holy text, and still to that 
Returning, as the bird returns at night. 

Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 

Thames — When flowing cups run swiftly round 
With no allaying Thames, 
Our careless heads with roses bound, 

Our hearts with loyal flames. Lovelace, To Althea. 

Thanked — When I'm not thank 1 d at all, I'm thank 1 d enough : 
I've done my duty, and I've done no more. 

Fielding, Tom Thumb. 
The — Then none was for a party; 
Then all were for the state ; 
Then the great man helped the poor, 
And the poor man loved the great; 
Then lands were fairly portioned ; 

Then spoils were fairly sold ; 
The Romans were like brothers 
In the brave days of old, Macaulay, Lays. 

Theban — I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban : 

What is your study ? Shaks. King Lear, act iii. sc. 4. 

They — They laugh that win. Shaks. Othello, act iv. sc. 1. 



THE Y—THO UGHT. 315 

They — Similes are like songs in love : 
They much describe, they nothing prom. 

Prior, Alma, can. iii. 1. 314. 

Thief— In holy anger, and pious grief. 
He solemnly cursed that rascally thief! 
He cursed him at board, he cursed him in bed, 
From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. 

Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, Jackdaw of Bheims. 

Thief— But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. 

2 Peter iii. 10. 

Things — Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things* 
From Dr. Madder's " Boulter's Monument" Supposed 
to have been inserted by Dr. Johnson, 1745. 

Things- — We have lefc undone those things which we ought to have 
done ; and we have done those things which we ouo-ht not to have 
done. Morning Prayer. 

Things — Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. 

Mutton, Paradise Lost, bk i. 1. 16. 

Things — Because things seen are stronger than things heard. 

Tbhnyson, Enoch Arden. 

Think — Who think too little, and who talk too much. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, pt. i. 1. 534. 

Thought — An'' I hallus corned to'a choorch afoor moy Sally wur dead, 
An' 'eerd un a brummin' awaay like a buzzard clock ower my yead. 
An/ 1 newer knaw'd whot a meau'd, buh I thorrt t£ ad summat to 

saay. 
An' I thorrt I'd said whah a owt to *a said, an I corned awaay. 

Texxysox, Northern Farmer. 

Thought — With too much quickness ever to be taught; 
With too much thinking to hare common thought. 

Pope. Moral Essays, ep. ii. 1. 97. 
Thought — He trudged along, unknowing what he sought, 
And whistled as he went, for want of thought. 

Dryden, Cymon and Tphigenia, 1. 84. 



* Words are women, deeds are men. Herbert, Jaciila Pradentum. 

Words are women, and deeds are men. 

Sir T. Bodley, Letter to his Librarian, 1604. 
Words are for women, actions for men. Fuller, Gnomoloyia. 



316 THOUGHT— TIME, 

Thought — Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought * 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part ii. act iv. sc. 4. 

Thought — Thoughe I write not with ink, 
No man can let [hinder] me thinke, 
For thought hath liberti, 
Thought is frank and free. J. Skelton, Boke of Philip Sparow. 

Thought — Can you paint a thought? or number 
Every fancy in a slumber ? 
Can you count soft minutes roving 
From a dial's point by moving ? 

John Ford, The Broken Heart, Song. 

Three — Don't you know, as the French say, there are three sexes — 
men, women, and clergymen ? Syd. Smith, W. W. 330. 

Throstle — And hark how blithe the throstle sings I 
He, too, is no mean preacher : 
Come forth into the light of things, 
Let Nature be your teacher. 

Wordsworth, The Tables Turned. 

Thunder — 1 Witch. When shall we three meet again — 
In thunder , lightning, or in rain ? 

Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. i. 

Tidings — Full well the busy whisper, circling round, 
Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned. 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, 1. 203. 

Time — Time elaborately thrown away. 

Youxg, The Last Hay, bk. i. 

Time — Time has laid his hand 

Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it ; 
But as a harper lays his open palm 
Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. 

Longfellow, The Golden Legend. 

Time — How small apart of time they share 
That are so wondrous sweet and fair ! Waller, Go, lovely JRose. 

Tune — IS or time, nor place, 

Hid then adhere. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 7. 

Time — Behold, now is the accepted time. 2 Cor. vi. 2. 



* The worde mote been cousin to the dede. 

Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, Prologue. 



TIME— TIMES. 317 

Time — And panting Time toiled after him in vain. 

Johnson, Prologue on the opening of Drury Lane Theatre. 

Time — In records that defy the tooth of time. 

Young, The Statesman s Creed. 

Time — Thus the ichirligig of time brings in his revenges. 

Shaks. Twelfth Night, act v. sc. 1. 

Time — Time conquers all, and ice must time obey* 

Pope, Pastorals, Winter, 1. 88. 

Time — Time tries the troth in everything. f 

Tusseb, beginning of a curious acrostic : " Thomas Tusser 
made me." 

Time — Time flies, death urges, knells call, heaven invites. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night ii. 

Time — The first time he said, u Time is," as if Fabius Commen- 
tator should have pronounced a sentence; the second time he 
said " Time was;" and the third time, with thunder and light- 
ning, as in great choler, he said, " Time is past " 

Greene, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, 1594. 

Time — TYith love time flies, hate makes it linger; 
Says youth, Be past ! 
Age, pointing to its sands with eager finger, 
Murmurs, Too fast ! 

W. H. TYills, Household Words, vol. 3. 

Time — Time icrites no wrinkle on thy azure brow : 
Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. 182. 

Time — Time wasted is existence, used is life. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night ii. 1. iso. 

Time — Xoiseless falls the foot of time, 
That only treads on flowers. 

W. K. Spencer, Lines to Lady A. Hamilton. 

Times — These are the times that try men's soids. 

Thomas Paine, The Crisis, no. 1. 



* Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori. 

Virgil, Bucol. eel. x. 1. 
f Origin of the modern proverb, " Time tries all." 



318 'TIS— TOMB. 

'Tis — I hold it true, whate'er befall, 
I feel it when I sorrow most ; 
' Tis better to have loved and lost 
Than never to have loved at all. Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxvii. 

Tobacco — Sublime tobacco ! which from east to west 
Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest. 

Byrox, The Island, can. ii. st. 19. 

I Together — Birds of a feather will gather together. 

Quoted by Burtox, as a. pro verb, Anatomy 
of Melancholy, part iii. sec. 1. 

Toil — Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; 
All at her work the village maiden sings, 
And, while she turns the giddy wheel around, 
Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. 

R. Gifford, Contemplation. 

To — One equal temper of heroic hearts, 

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will, 

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Tennyson, Ulysses. 

To — His face is stem, 

As one compelled, in spite of scorn, 
To teach a truth he could not learn. 

E. B. Browning, vol. ii. p. 2. 

Toleration — So natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they 
really care about, in the minds of almost all religious persons, 
even in the most tolerant countries, the duty of toleration is 
admitted with tacit reserves. One person will bear with dissent 
in matters of Church government, but not of dogma ; another 
can tolerate everybody, short of a Papist or a Unitarian ; ano- 
ther, every one who believes in' revealed religion ; a few extend 
their charity a little further, but stop at the belief in a God and 
in a future state. Wherever the sentiment of the majority is 
still genuine and intense, it is found to have abated little of its 
claim to be obeyed. Johx Stuart Mill. 

Toll— Toll for the brave ! 
The brave that are no more ! 
All suuk beneath the wave, 
Fast by their native shore. 

Cowper, On the Loss of the Royal George, 

Tomb — The tomb of him that would have made 

The world too glad and free. Hervey, The Devil's Progress. 



TORRENT— TRAVELLER. 319 

Torrent — So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar 
But bind him to his native mountains more. 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, 1. 517. 

Torrent — Where is the man who has the power and skill 
To stem the torrent of a woman 's will? 
For if she will, she will, you may depend on't ; 
And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.* 

Torrent — The torrent's smoothness, ere it dash below. 

Campbell, Gertrude, part iii. st. 5. 

Tongue — Pray, goody, please to moderate the rancour of your 
tongue ; 
\Thy flash those sparks of fury from your eyes ? 
Eemember, when the judgment's weak, the prejudice is strong. 

O'Hara, Midas, act i. sc. 3. 

Tongue — My liege, the tongue of true obedience 
Must not gainsay his sovereign's repose. 
By heaven, I will not kiss the cheek of sleep 
Till I have fetched those traitors to the court. 

Lusfs Dominion. 

Touch — Touch not ; taste not; handle not. Col. ii. 21. 

Towering — Into a towering passion. Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. 2. 

° Trade — In every age and clime we see 
Two of a trade can ne'er agree. 

Gray, Ratcatcher and Cats, 1. 43. 

Trade's empire — Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. 

Johnson, Lines added to Goldsmith 's Deserted Village. 

Train — Forced from their homes, a melancholy train. 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, 1. 409. 

Traveller — She (the Eoman Catholic Church) may still exist in 
undiminished vigour, when some traveller from New Zealand 
shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken 
arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's, f 

Macaulay, Review of Range's History of the Popes. 



* These lines are copied from the pillar erected on the mount in the Dane 
John Field, Canterbury. 

+ Employed first by Macaulay in 1S24; the idea is to be found in Yolney's 
Buins. chap, ii ; Horace Walpole, Letter to Mason. Nov. 1774 ; Kirke White, 
poem on Time; and Shelley, Dedication to Peter Bell. Macaulay employed 
this image more than once. 



320 TREASURE-TYRANT. 

Treasure — Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 

Matt. vi. 21. 
Treasures — And if we do but watch the hour, 

There never yet was human power 

Which could evade, if unforgiven, 

The patient search and vigil long 

Of him who treasures up a wrong. Byron, Mazeppa. 

Trencherman — A very valiant trencherman. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act i. sc. 1. 

Trick — I know a trick worth two of that. 

Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act ii. sc. 1. 

Trifles — A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. 

Shaks. Winters Tale, act iv. sc. 2. 

Trodden — I have trodden the wine-press alone. Isaiah lxiii. 3. 

Trope — For rhetoric he could not ope 
His mouth but out there flew a trope. 

Butler, Hudibras, part i. can. i. 1. 81. 
Troy — And, like another Helen, fired another Troy. 

Dryden, Alexander's Feast, 1. 154. 
True — Keep thy red gold and gems, thou stormy grave ! 
Give back the true and brave ! 

Hemans, Treasures of the Deep. 
True — Creation's Chief, superior to the rest, — 
True to himself, man cannot but be blessed. 

J. E. Carpenter, R. of Dreamer. 
Trust — To do at once what is to do, 
And trust ourselves alone. Nation Newspaper. 

Truth — Truth for ever on the scaffold, wrong for ever on the throne. 

Lowell, The Present Crisis. 
Truth — "Who never doubted, never half believed, 
Where doubt, there truth is, — 'tis her shadow. 

Bailey, Festus, p. 36. 

Truth — Xo pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage 

ground of truth. Bacon, Essays, Of Truth. 

Tyrant — Curst be the man, the meanest wretch in life, 
The crouching vassal of a tyrant wife ; 
Who has no wish but by her high permission, 
Who has no purse except in her possession. 
Were such the wife who'd fallen to my part, 
I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart. 

Burns, Tarn O'Shanter. 



UNCLA SPS— UTTERANCE. 




i NCLASPS — Unclasps her warmed jewels one by 
one. Keats, St. Agnes' Eve. 

Uneonquered — Victor of Assayed orient plain, 
Victor of all the fields of Spain, 
Victor of France's despot reign, . . . 
Uneonquered Wellington. 

J. C. Croker, Ode on the Duke. 
Unexpressive — The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. 

Shaks. As You Like It, act iii. sc. 2. 
Unfortunate — Unfortunate Miss Bailey I 

G. CoLMA>*(the younger), Love Laughs at Locksyniths, actii. 
Uniting — By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. 

J. Dickinson, The Liberty Song (1768). 
Unknelled — "Without a grave, unknelled, uncqffined, and unknown.* 
Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. 179. 
Unrespited — Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. iss. 
Unstable — Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. Gen. xlix. 4. 
Unsung — That was a time, a blessed time, 
When hearts were fresh and young, 
When freely gushed all feelings forth 

Unsyllabled — unsung ! Motherwell, Jeannie Morrison. 

Unsung — To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, 
' Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.' 

Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel, can. vi. st. 1. 
Unwashed — Another lean unwashed artificer 
Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death. 

Shaks. K. John, act iv. sc. 2. 
Unwashed — Clubs upstairs 

To which th' unwashed artificer repairs. Cowper, Table Talk, 1. 153. 
Unwashed — The great Unwashed. Lord Brougham (?). 

Utterance — That large utterance of the early gods. Keats, Hyperion. 



See page 192, Imp ei-fect ions. 
Y 




VALE— VICE, 




ALE— Declined 

Into the vale of years. 

Shaks. Othello, act iii. sc. 3. 

Valour — My valour is certainly going ! it is sneak- 
ing off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the 
palm of my hands. R. B. Sheridan, The Rivals, act v. sc. 3. 

Vanille — You flavour everything, you are the vanille of society. 

Syd. Smith, W. W. p. 329. 

Vanity — Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher ; vanity of vanities ; 
all is vanity. Eccles. i. 2 ; xii. 8. 

Vanity — The fool of vanity ; for her alone 
He lives, loves, writes,— and dies but to be known.* 

Canning, New Morality, Anti-Jacobin, p. 236. 

Vanity — All is vanity and vexation of spirit. Eccles. i. 14. 

Venice — Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles. 
Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. 1. 

Venus — A Venus rising from a sea of jet. 

Waller, Lines to Countess of Carlisle. 

Verge — Spurned by the young, but hugged by tbe old 
To the very verge of the churchyard mould. 

Hood, Miss Kilmansegg. 

Verses — For rhyme the rudder is of verses, 
With which, like ships, they steer their courses. 

Butler, Hudibras, pt. i. can. i. 1. 463. 

Very — Very like a whale. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. 

Vice — Who called thee vicious was a lying elf: 
Thou art not vicious, for thou'rt vice itself 

Martial, Ad Zo'ilum, lib. xi. ep. xciii. 

* On Louvet, author of Faublas. 






VICE—VULGAB. 323 

Vice — Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. 

Burke, On the French Revolution. 
Victory — " Victory ! — or Westminster Abbey !" 

Lord Xelsox, Life, On Boarding the San Carlo. 
Victory — And either victory, or else a grave. 

Shaks. K. Henry VI, part iii. act ii. sc. 2. 
Villain — Villain and he he many miles asunder. 

Shaks. Borneo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 5. 
Villanie — For villanie makeih villeine, 
And by his dedes a chorle is seine. 

Chaucer, Bomaunt of the Bose, 1. 2iso. 
Violets — Weep no more, lady, weep no more : 
Thy sorrow is in vain ; 
For, violets plucked, the sweetest showers 
Will ne'er make grow again. 

Percy, The Friar of Orders Grey. 
Virtue — And virtue is her own reward* 

Prior, Ode in Imitation of Horace, bk. iii. ode 2. 
Virtue — Ladies, even of the most uneasy virtue, 
Prefer a spouse whose age is short of thirty. 

Byron, Don Juan, can. i. st. 62. 
Virtue — Or if Virtue feeble were, 

Heaven itself would stoop to her. Miltox, Comus, last lines. 
Virtue — Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids ; 
Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. 

YoungJ Night Thoughts, night vi. 1. 314. 
Virtue — The first virtue, sone, if thou wilt lere, 
Is to restreine, and kepen wel thy tonge.f 

Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, Manciples Tale, 1. 17251. 
Visions — Visions of glory, spare my aching sight. 

Gray, The Bard, part iii. st. 1. 
Voice — The people's voice is odd ; 

It is, and it is not, the voice of God. I 

Pope, To Augustus, ep. i. bk. ii. 1. 89. 
Vulgar — But thee, 

Whom fortune hath exempted from the herd 
Of vulgar men. Habixgtox, Castara. To Hon. Wm. E. 

* Amen ! and virtue is its own reward ! 

Home, Douglas, act iii. sc. 1. 
t Virtutem primam esse puta corapescere linguaui. — Cato. 
? •• Vox populi, vox Dei," a proverb of the twelfth century, if we may believe 
Riley's Dictionary of Classical Quotations. 



WA KIN G— WA TER. 




AKING — But such a sacred and homefelt delight, 
Such sober certainty of leaking bliss, 
I never heard till now. Milton, Comus, 1. 263. 

Wall — The weakest goes to the wall. 

Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 1. 

Want — Or that eternal want of pence which vexes public men. 

Tennyson, Will Waterproof. 

War — War its thousands slays : peace its ten thousands. 

Betlby Porteus, Death, 1. 178. 

War — But wars a game which, were their subjects wise, 
Kings would not play at. 

Cowper, The Task, bk. v. Winter Morning Walk. 

War — Ezfer war, I call it murder, — 
There you hev it plain and flat; 
I don't want to go no furder 

Than my Testyment fer that. Lowell, Biglow Papers, p. 4. 

Warble — Then to the well -trod stage anon, 
If Jonson's learned sock be on, 
Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, 
Warble his native wood-notes wild. Milton, E Allegro, 1. 131. 

Watches — Enough of Science and of Art ; 
Close up those barren leaves ; 
Come forth, and bring with you a heart 

That watches and receives. Wordsworth, Tables Turned. 

Water — Water, water, everywhere, 
Xor any drop to drink. 

Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, part ii. 



WA TER—WHA T. 325 

Water — Seemed washing his hands with invisible soap 
In imperceptible water. Hood, Miss Kihnansegg. 

Water — Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. 

Shaks. K. Henry VI, part ii. act iii. sc. 1. 

Water — Here lies one whose name was writ in water. 

Dictated by Keats for his own Epitaph. 

Water — And are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be 
gathered up again. 2 Sam. xiv. 14. 

Wave — On adamant our wrongs we all engrave, 
But write our benefits upon the wave. King, Art of Love y 1. 971. 

Wave — When you do dance, I wish you 

A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do 
Nothing but that. Shaks. Winter s Tale, act iv. sc. 3. 

We — I'd say we suffer and we strive 

Not less nor more as men than boys ; 
With grizzled beards at forty-five 
As erst at twelve in corduroys. 

Thackeray, Miscell. vol. i. p. 158. 

Weak — That, if weak women went astray, 
Their stars were more in fault than they. Prior, Hans Carvel. 

Weary — There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary 
be at rest. Job iii. 17. 

Wee — Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower. 

Burns, To a Mountain Daisy. 

Weighty — The weighty bullion of one sterling line, 
Drawn to French wire, would through whole pages shine. 

Koscommox, Translated Verse. 

Wet — A wet sheet and a flowing sea, 
A wind that follows fast, 
And fills the white and rustling sail, 

And bends the gallant mast. Allan Cunningham, Songs. 

Wet — With mug in hand to wet his ivhistle. 

C. Cotton, Virgil Travestie, 1. 6. 

Wet — A drunkard clasp his teeth, and not undo 'em 
To suffer wet damnation to run through 'era. 

Cyril Tourneur, The Revenger s Tragedy, act iii. sc. 1. 

What — We know what we are, but know not what we may be. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iv. sc. 5. 



326 WHAT— WHERE. 

What — What strikes the crown 

Of tyrants down, 
And answers with its flash their frown? 

The sword. 
M. J. Barry, The Nation Newspaper. 

What — What hell it is in suing long to bide. 

Spenser, Mother Hubberd's Tale. 

What — 0, what a tangled web we weave 
When first we practise to deceive ! 

Scott, Marmion, can. vi. st. 17. 

What — What is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. 

Shaks. Measure for Measure, act v. sc. 1. 

What — What is nearest touches us most. The passions rise higher 
at domestic than at imperial tragedies. 

Johnson, Letter to Mrs. Thrale. 

What — What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade 
Invites my steps and points to yonder glade ? 

Pope, To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, 1. 1. 

What — What boots it at one gate to make defence, 
And at another to let in the foe ? 

Milton, Samson Agonistes, 1. 560. 

What — What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put 
asunder. Matt. xix. 6. 

What — What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, 
That he should weep for her ? Shaks. Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2. 

When — When two agree in their desire, 
One sparke will set them both on fire. 

Quarles, 1st Lotterie, Emblem 34. 

Where — Art, empire, earth itself to change are doomed ; 
Earthquakes have raised to heaven the humble vale, 
And gulfs the mountain's mighty mass entombed, 
And where th' Atlantic rolls wide continents have bloomed.* 

Beattie, Hermit, bk. ii. 

Where — Where Hellen is there will be warre; 
For Death and Lust companions are. 

Quarles, 1st Lotterie, Emblem 27. 

* See Plato's Timceus. 



WHERE— WHO. 327 

Where — Where none attends, what boots it to complain? 
Men's froward hearts are moved with women's tears 
As marble stones are pierced with drops of rain : 
No plaints find passage through unwilling ears. 
Tasso, Recov. of Jerusalem (Fairfax's Trans.), bk. iv. st. 71. 
Which — Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or 
evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. 

Bacon, Essay xx. Empire. 
Whip — Whip me such honest knaves. Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. 1. 
Whipped — Dost thou ask her crime ? 

She whipped two female 'prentices to death, 
And hid them in the coal-hole. Canning, Anti-Jacobin, p. 16. 
Whispering — And whispering, " I will ne'er consent," consented. 

Byron, Don Juan, can. i. st. 117. 
Whispering — The beat of the alarming drum 

Roused up the soldier ere the morning star, 
While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, 
Or whispering with white lips — "The foe ! they come ! they come !" 
Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iii. st. 25. 
Whistle — He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. 

B. Franklin, Poor Richard. 
White — Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame, 
Convinced that all men's motives are the same; 
And finds, with keen discriminating sight, 
Black 's not so black, nor white so very white. 

Canning, Anti-Jacobin, p. 232. 
Who — Who says in verse what others say in prose. 

Pope, Horace, bk. ii. ep. i. 1. 201. 
Wlxo — Who has not known ill fortune never knew 
Himself or his own virtue. Thomson, Alfred, act i. sc. 1. 

Who — Who fears to speak of Ninety-eight? 
Who blushes at the name ? 
When cowards mock the patriot's fate, 
Who hangs his head for shame ? 

He's all a knave or half a slave 

Who slights his country thus ; 
But a true man, like you, man, 

Will fill his glass with us.* 

Rev. John Kells Ingram, The Nation Newspaper. 

* By the Rev. John Kells Ingram, F.T. CD. ; this information I owe to Mr. 
Thomas L'Estrauge of Donegal. 



328 WHOLE— WILD. 

Whole — 'Tis cot the whole of life to live, 
Xor all of death to die. 

Montgomery, The Issues of Life and Death. 

Whom — * Whom the gods love die young," was said of yore.* 

Byrox, Don Juan, can. iv. st. 12. 

Why — Ho ! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Gray? 
And why does thy nose look so blue ? 

'Tis the weather that's cold; 

'Tis I'm grown very old; 
And my doublet is not very new, 

Well-a-day ! Thomas Holcroft. 

Why — Why were they proud? Because red-lined accounts 
Were richer than the songs of Grecian years. 
"Why were they proud? Again ask we aloud, 
Why in the name of gloiy were they proud ? Keats, Isabella. 

Wicked — The wicked flee when no mam pursueth. Prov. xxviii. 1. 

Wicked — 'Cause 1's wicked, — I is. Fa mighty wicked, anyhow. 
I can't help it. Mrs. Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, chap. 2:. 

Widow — The widow can bake, an' the widow can brew, 
The widow can shape, and the widow can sew. 

Alla>' Ramsay, Gentle Shepherd. 

Wife — The wife of thy bosom. Deut. xiii. 6. 

Wife — Bone-wearied, many-childed, trouble-tried 
Wife of my bosom, wedded to my soul, 
Mother of nine that live, and two that died. 

Ebexezer Elliott, The Excursion. 

Wild — Wild dreams ! but such 

As Plato loved ; such as with holy zeal 
Our Milton worshipp'd. Blessed hopes ! awhile 
From man withheld, even to the latter days 
When Christ shall come, and all things be fulfill 'd. 

Southey, Inscription on Henry Marten. 

Wild — The Dean of deserves to be preached to death by wild 

curates. Syd. Smith, W. W. p. 339. 



* Quern Di dilignnt adolescens moritur. Plautcs, Bach, act iv. sc. 6. 1. 18. 

*Ov m dec) ^iXovcr/ a7ri;»-rxa vgo?. A Fragment of Menander. 



WILL— WISEST. 329 

Will — First, then, a woman will, or won't — depend on't; 
If she will do't, she will ; and there's an end on't. 
But, if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is, 
Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice.* 

Aaron Hill, Epilogue to Zara. 

Wind — The wind bloweth where it listeth. John iii. 8. 

Wind — Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. Ps. xviii. 10. 

Windward — Just to the windward of the laiu.f 

Churchill, Ghost, bk. iii. 1. 56. 

Wings — For riches certainly make themselves wings. Prov. xxiii. 5. 

Winter — See, Winter comes, to ride the varied year. 

» Thomson, Winter, 1. i. 

Winter — Winter, ruler of the inverted year. 

Cowper, The Task, Winter Evening, bk. iv. 

Wisdom — Wisdom married to immortal verse.% 

Wordsworth, The Excursion, bk. vi. 

Wisdom — With wisdom fraught, 
Not such as books, but such as practice taught. 

Waller, On the King's Return. 

Wisdom — Beauty is excelled by manly grace, 
.And wisdom, which alone is truly fair. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iv. 1. 489. 
Wise — Too wise to err, too good to be unkind, 

Are all the movements of the Eternal Mind. Kev. John East.§ 
Wise — So wise, so young, they say, do ne'er live long. 

Shaks. King Richard III, act iii. sc. l. 

Wisest — Or ravished with the whistling of a name, 
See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame ! 
If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, 
The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind. 

Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. 281. 



* See ante, Torrent, for parallel passage. 

t Windy side of the law. Shaks. Twelfth Night, act iii. sc. 4. 

1 Lap me in soft Lydian airs, 

Married to immortal verse. Miltox, L' Allegro. 

§ Quoted by Mr. Grocott, who adds that he has searched Mr. East's works 
and not found the couplet; and that Dr. Adam Clarke put forward three 
incontrovertible maxims as received by all religious people: — 1. God is too 
wise to err ; 2. He is too holy to do wrong ; 3. He is too good to be unkind. 



330 WISHES— WOMAN. 

Wishes — Wishes at least are the easy pleasures of the poor. 

D. Jerrold, Wit and Wisdom. 
Wishes — Like our shadows, 

Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. 

Young, Night Thoughts, night v. 1. 66i. 
With — There, Shakespeare ! on whose forehead climb 
The crowns o' the world ! eyes sublime — 
With tears and laughter for all time! 

E. B. Browning, vol. ii. p. 19. 
Wit — His wit invites you by his looks to come, 

But when you knock it never is at home.* Cowper, Conversation. 
Wit — We grant, although he had much wit, 
He was very shy of using it. 

Butler, Hudibnas, pt. i. can. i. 1. 45. 
Witty — Witty as Horatius Flaccus, 
As great a Jacobin as Gracchus, 
Short, though not as fat as Bacchus, 

Riding on a little jackass. Syd. Smith, Impromptu on Jeffrey. 
Witty — Who was so proud, so witty, and so wise. 

Rochester, Ep. to Ed. Howard, 
Woe — One woe doth tread upon another s heel, 

So fast they follow. Shaks. Hamlet, act iv. sc. 7. 

Woe — Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. 

Herrick, Hesperides, Aphorisms, no. 287. 
Woes — Woes cluster ; rare are solitary icoes ; 
They love a train, they tread each other's heel.f 

Young, Night Thoughts, night iii. 1. 63. 
Wolf— -Like Aaron and Ure, 
The wolf e from the door 
To ward and to kepe, 
From their ghostly shepe, 
And their spiritual lammes. 

John Skeltox, The BoJce of Colin Clout, 1. 130. 
Wolfish — While yet our England was a wolfish den. 

Keats, Endymion. 
Woman — Show us how divine a thing 
A woman may be made. Wordsworth, To a Young Lady, xxxvi. 

I * See page 248, Pate. 

T First a speck, and then a vulture,- 
Till the air is dark with pinions. 
So disasters come not singly . . . 
First a shadow, then a sorrow, 
Till the air is dark with anguish. Loxgfellow, Bimcatha, xix. 



WOMAN— WORDS. 331 

Woman — Was ever woman in this humour wooed ? 
Was ever woman in this humour won ? 

Shaks. K. Richard III, act i. sc. 2. 
Woman — In her first passion, woman loves her lover : 
In all the others, all she loves is love.* 

Byron, Don Juan, can. iii. st. 3, 
Woman — The woman that deliberates is lost.f 

Addison, Cato, act iv. sc. 1. 
Woman — 'Tis woman that seduces all mankind; 
By her we first were taught the wheedling arts. 

Gay, Beggar's Opera, act i. sc. 1. 
* Women — As for the women, though we scorn and flout y em, 
We may live with, but cannot live without 9 em. 

Dryden, The Will, act v. sc. 4. 

Women — The women pardoned all except her face. 

Byron, Don Juan, can. v. st. 113. 

^Women's weapons — And let not women's iveapons, water-drops, 
Stain my man's cheeks. Shaks. King Lear, act ii. sc. 4. 

Wonder — And he himselfe, long gazing thereupon, 

At last fell humbly downe upon his knee, 
; And of his wonder made religion. 

Spenser, Faerie Queene, bk. iv. can. 6. st. 22. 
Wonderful — wonderful wonderful, and most wonderful wonder- 
ful, and yet again wonderful, and after that out of all whooping. 
Shaks. As You Like It, act iii. sc. 2. 

i Words — For words are wise men's counters ; they do but reckon 
by them ; but they are the money of fools. 

Hobbes, The Leviathan, pt. i. can. 4. 
Words — And words came first, and, after, blows. 

Charles Lloyd, Speech of Courtney, 
Words — To those who know thee not, no words can paint ! 
And those who know thee, know all words are faint ! 

Hannah More, Sensibility, 
Words — Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke. 

Pope, Horace, bk. ii. ep. ii. 1. 163. 
Words — Polonius. What do you read, my lord ? 
Hamlet. Words, words, words. Shaks. Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2. 



* Dans les premieres passions les femmes aiment l'amant, et dans les autres 
elles aiment l'amour.— La Rochefoucauld, Maxim 494. 
t See page 112, Deliberates. 



332 WORLD— WORSHIP. 

World — For still the world prevailed, and its dread laugh, 
Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn. 

Thomson, Autumn, 1. 233. 
World — I have not loved the world, nor the world me. 

, Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iii. st. 113. 

World — Xo : the world must be peopled. 

Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act ii. sc. 3. 

World — World, in thy ever busy mart 
I've acted no unnoticed part, 

Would I resume it ? oh, no ! 
Four acts are done, the jest grows stale; 
The waning lamps burn dim and pale, 

And reason asks, Cui bono ? James Smith, Poem on Chigwell. 

World — No; I would rather share your tear than any other's glee, 

For, though you're nothing to the world, you're all the world to 

me. An American Poetess. 

World — The world is too much with us ; late and soon, 
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. 

Wordsworth, Miscellaneous Sonnets, pt. i. 33. 

World — Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, 
The world had wanted many an idle song. 

Pope, Ep. to Dr. Arbuthnot, 1. 2:. 

World — Of whom the world ivas not worthy. Heb. xi. 38. 

Worm — Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. 

Mark ix. 44. 
Worm — The spirit of the worm beneath the sod 
In love and worship blends itself with God. 

Shelley, Epipsychidion. 
Worm — Your worm is your only emperor for diet) we fat all 
creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. 

Shaks. Hamlet, act iv. sc. 3. 

Worm — A man mav fish with the worm that hath eat of a king. 

Ibid. 
I Worship — Kings are like stars — they rise and set — they have 
The worship of the world, but no repose.* Shelley, Hellas. 

Worship — He wales a portion with judicious care; 
And " Let us worship God!" he says, with solemn air. 

Burns, The Cotter s Saturday Night. 

* See parallel quotation from Bacon, page 327, Which. 



WOULD— WJROTE. 333 

Would — Oh ! would I were dead now. 
Or up in my bed now, 
To cover my head now, 

And have a good cry. Hood, A Table of Errata. 

Would — She only said, " My life is dreary, 
He cometh not," she said; 
She said, " I am aweary, aweary, 

I would that I were dead." Tennyson, Mariana, Poems, p. o. 
Would — Godiva ! not for countless tomes 
Of war's or kingcraft's leaden hist'ry 
Would I thy charming legend lose, 
Or view it in the bloodless hues 
Of fabled myth or myst'ry. 

R. B. Brough, Songs of the Gov. Classes. 
Wouldst — Xay, dearest, nay : if thou wouldst have me paint 
The home to which, could love fulfil its prayers, 
This hand would lead thee, listen ! 

E. L. Bulwer, Lady of Lyons. 
Writ — And what is writ is writ : 
Would it were worthier ! 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. lss. 
Write — He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well 
hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem. 

Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
Writing — 'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill 

Appear in writing or in judging ill. Pope, Ess. on Criticism, 1. 1. 
Written — Not to think of men above that which is written.* 

1 Cor. iv. 6. 
Wrong — Brother, brother, we are both in the wrong. 

Gay, Beggar s Opera, act ii. sc. 3. 
Wrong — Then old age and experience, hand in hand, 
Lead him to death and make him understand, 
After a search so painful and so long, 
That all his life he has been in the wrong. 

Rochester, Ep. to Ed. Howard. 
Wrongs — I give thee sixpence ! I will see thee d — d first ! 
Wretch ! whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance, 
Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded, 

Spiritless outcast. Canning, Knife- Grinder. 

Wrote — I lived to write, and wrote to live. 

Rogers, Italy, A Character, 1. 16. 

* Generally quoted, " to be wise above that which is written." 




YE— YOUTH. 




E — Ye critics, say 

How poor was this to Pindar's style! 

Prior, Burlesque of Boileau! s Ode. 

Ye — Ye free-born sons, Britannia's boast, 
Firm as your rock-surrounded coast, 
Ye sovereigns of the sea, 
Assist uphold your Church and State, 
Your great men good, your good men great, 
Awe all abroad, at home unite, 
And jolly join in faction's spite, 

Then, then, my friends, you're free. Dibdin, Sea So?igs. 

Yesterday — The same dull sound ; the same dull lack 
Of lustre in the level gray : 
It seems like yesterday come back 
With his old things, and not to-day, 

Owen Meredith, Wanderer, 

Yet — Oh, yet we trust that somehow good 
Will be the final goal of ill, 
To pangs of nature, sins of will, 
Defects of doubt, and taints of blood. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, liii. 

Yielding — The yielding marble of her snowy breast. 

Waller, Lines on a Lady, 1. 12. 

Yorick — Alas, poor Yorick ! 

Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. 1 ; Sterne, Tristram Shandy. 

Youth — In my hot youth, when George the Third was king. 

Byron, Don Juan, can. i. st. 212. 



YOUTH— YROX. 



335 



Youth — ye ! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations. 

Byro>~, Don Juan, can. ii. st. 1. 

Youth — Youth looks on life as purest gold; 
Age reckons the alloy. 

J. E. Caepexter, Romance of the Dreamer. 

Youth — And made youth younger, and taught life to live. 

Yoryo, Night Thoughts, night v. 1. 796. 

Youth — From thoughtless youth to ruminating- age. 

Cowper, Progress of Error, 1. 24. 

Youth — He wears the rose 

Of youth upon him. Shaes. Ant. and Cleopatra, actiii. sc. 4, 

Yron — TThat yron courage ever could endure 
To worke such outrage on so faire a creature ! 

Spenser, Faerie Queens, bk. iv. can. vi. st. i;. 





I 




ZEAL— ZEA L O USL Y. 

\ EAL — Tell zeal, it lacks devotion ; 
Tell love, it is but lust ; 
Tell time, it is but motion ; 
Tell flesh, it is but dust ! 
And wish them not reply, 
For thou must give the lie. 
Jos. Sylvestek, The Lye, Attrib. to Sir W. Raleigh. 

Zeal — So shall they build me altars in their zeal, 
"Where knaves shall minister and fools shall kneel; 
Where faith may mutter o'er her mystic spell 
Written in blood, and bigotry may swell 
The sail he spreads for heaven with blasts from hell. 

Moore, Lalla Bookh, Veiled Prophet, 

Zeal — We do that in our zeal our calmer moments would be afraid 
to answer. Scott, Woodstock, chap. 17. 

Zealots — For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; 
He can't be wrong whose life is in the right. 

Pope, Ess. on Man, ep. iii. 1. so5. 

Zealously — It is good to be zealously affected always in a good 
thing. Galatians iv. is. 




I N D E X. 




FOUTRA for the 

world. 6. 
A man I am, cross 'd, 

5. 
A wretched soul 

bruised, 5. 
Aaron's serpent, 
222. 
Abdiel, faithful among faithless, 144. 
Abide with me, 1. 
Abov -.:. 1. 

anv Greek, 1 | note '). 
the smoke and stir, 1. 
Abra was ready ere. 1. 
Abridgment of all, 1. 
Absence adds to love. 1. 
makes the heart, 1. 
sweet, 1. 
Absent in body. 1 . 

ite the knave is. 1, 
Abstracts and v i'i-ri chronicles, 2. 
Abundance of the heart. 2. 
Abuse, stumbling on, 2. 
Accept a miracle, 2. 
Acce] >ted time, -,'. 
Accidents by flood and field. 2. 
Accommodated, excellent to be, 2. 

i s 1 was. 2. 
Accusing spirit, 17. 
Aces, roll only upon the four, 2. 
Ache, age, and penury. 6. 
Aching void, ^2. 
Acquaintance, auld, 50. 
Acre of neighbour's corn. 94, 
A areSj 

Across the walnuts and the wine, 2. ' 
Act we] rt, 3. 



Acting of a dreadful thing, S. 
Action and counteraction, 3. 

a noble, 235. 

fine, 123. 

in, how like an angel, 3. 

no noble, 3. 

pious, 3. 

suit the, to the word, 3. 
Actions for men, 315 (note). 

like almanacs, 3. 

of the last age, 3. 

of the just, 3. 
. prodigious, 3. 

speak, 3. 
Actor, after a well-graced, 4. 

I am no, 3. 
Acts, little, nameless, 4. 

our angels are, 4. 
Ada, sole daughter, 4. 
Adam dolve and Eve span, 4. 

the goodliest man, 4. 

the offending, 4. 
Adam's fall, in, we sinned all, 4. 
Adder, like the deaf, 4. 
Adding fuel to the llame, 151. 
Adieu, so sweetly she bade me, 4. 
Admired disorder, 4. 
Admit impediments, 15. 
Admitted to that equal sky, 4. 
Adore the hand that gives the blow, 4. 
Adored through fear, 5. 
Adorn a tale, 5. 

Adorn, nothing that he did not, 5. 
Adulteries of art, 5. 
Adversary had written a book, 5, 

the devil, 5. 
Adversity, bruised with, 5. 



338 



INDEX. 



Adversity, cross'd with, 5. 

sweet are the uses of, 5. 
Adversity's sweet milk, 6. 
Aery purposes, 137. 
Afer with thousands, 157. 
Affairs of men, tide in, 157. 
Affect, study what you most, 263. 
Affection hateth nicer hands, 6. 
Affections dark as Erebus, 90. 
Affliction tries our virtue, 6. 
Affliction's heaviest showers, 143. 

sons, 65. 
Afflictions, mercies in disguise, 225. 
Afric maps, 130. 
Afric's sunny fountains, 6. 
Africa and golden joys, 6. 
After a thousand victories, 55. 

death the doctor, 6. 

life's fitful fever, 6. 

many days, 61. 

me the deluge, 6. 
After-dinner talk, 2. 
Agate-stone, no bigger than, 6. 
Age, ache, and penury, 6. 

be comfort to my, 6. 

cannot wither her, 7. 

for talking, 7. 

good old, 167. 

green old, 7. 

he was not of an, 7. 

in a good old, 7. 

is as a lusty winter, 7. 

is but falling of a leaf, 127. 

is grown so picked, 7. 

master-spirits of, 7. 

of chivalry, 7. 

of ease, 7. 

of the world, 117. 
• old, comes on apace, 7. 

old, of cards, 7. 

old, serene and bright, 8. 

ruminating, 335. 

shakes Athena's tow r ers, 8. 

some smack of, 7. 

summer of her, 8. 

that melts in unperceived, 8. 

'twixt boy and youth, 6. 

what find more honourable, 7. 

without a name, 8. 
Age's tooth, poison for, 258. 
Ages, famous to all, 8. 



Ages, heir of all the, 8. 

one increasing purpose, 9. 

once in the flight of, 8. 

seven, 8, 304. 

the slumbering, 9. 
Agony, all we know of, 9. 
Agree as angels do above, 18. 

where they do on stage, 9. 
Ahriman and Ormuzd, 9. 
Ahrimanes, honour to, 9. 
Aidenn, within the distant, 9. 
Air, a chartered libertine, 9. 

be shook to, 9. 

dark with anguish, 330 (note). 

dark with pinions, 330 (note). 

do not saw the, 10. 

is full of farewells, 10. 

leaves to the, 10. 

melted into thin,, 10. 

mocking the, 10. 

of delightful studies, 10. 
Airy hopes my children, 11. 

nothing a local habitation, 10. 

tongues that syllable, 10. 
Aisle and fretted vault, 11. 
Aisles of Christian Rome, 11. 
Ajax strives, 11. 
Alabaster, grandsire cut in, 11. 

smooth as monumental, 11. 
Alacrity in sinking, 11. 
Alas ! I feel 1 am, 3. 
Alcestes from the grave, 11. 
Aldiborontephoscophonio, 11. 
Ale, belly, God send thee, 32. 

jolly goode, and olde, 123. 
Alexandrine, needless, 11. 
Alike all ages, 11. 
All chance direction, 12. 

cry and no wool, 12. 

Europe rings, 12. 

fades and scarcely leaves behind 
12. 

in the Downs, 12. 

is not lost, 12. 

men have their price, 12. 

men merely players, 304. 

nature is but art, 12. 

that's bright must fade, 12. 

the secrets of the spring, 14. 

the Talents, 12. 

things, prove, 12. 




IXDEX. 



339 



All things that are, 12. 

things to all men, 13. 

things work for good, 13. 

think all men mortal, 13. 

thou art, 177. 

thoughts, all passions, 13. 

thy ends, thy country's, 13. 

we know, 13. 

we know they do above,13(note). 

we met was fair, 13. 
Allegory, headstrong as an, 13. 
Allies, thou hast great, 13. 
Allured to brighter worlds, 13. 
Almighty dollar, 13. 

Father, these as they change, 13. 
Almighty's orders to perform, '274. 
Alms, when thou doest, 14. 
Alone, all, all alone, 14. 

fit that a man should be, 14. 

most busied when, 14. 

never less, 14. 

on a wide, wide sea, 14. 

that worn-out word, 14. 

with his glory, 14. 

with noble thoughts, 14. 
Alpha and Omega, 14. 
.Alp, o'er many a fiery, 14. 
Alps on Alps arise, 14. 
Alraschid, Haroun, 14. 
Alsatia, bravoes of, 15. 
Altars, build, in zeal, 336. 

strike for your, 15. 
Alteration finds, 15. 
Alway, not live, 15. 
Amalthea's horn, 15. 
Amaranthine flower, 143. 
Amber, grubs in, 15. 
Ambition, fling away, 16. 

loves to slide, 15. 

of a private man, 15. 

of sterner stuff, 15. 

to reign is worth, 15. 

vaulting. 15. 
" Amen'' stuck in my throat, 16. 
Amend your ways, 16. 
Among them, but not of them, 16. 

the untrodden ways, 16. 
Amos Cottle, 253. 
Amorous, fond, and billing, 16. 
Ample room and verge, 16. 
An ape will never be a man, 16. 



Anarch, lets the curtain fall, 16. 
Anarchy, eternal, 16. 
Ancestors after him, 16. 
Ancestors of nature, 16. 
Ancient and fish-like smell, 16. 

grudge, 16. 
Ancients of the earth, 17. 
And dying bless the hand, 4. 

we with nature's heart, 17. 
Angel, guardian, presiding, 17. 

like an, 3. 

ministering, 17. 

recording, 17. 

whiteness, 21. 
Angel's face, 17. 

ken, 18. 
Angelic Doctor, 17. 
Angels and ministers, 17. 

agree as, 18. 

are bright still, 17. 

entertained unawares, 133. 

holy guard thy bed, 17. 

in brighter dreams, 18. 

liveried, thousand, 18. 

listen, 18. 

make the, weep, 18. 

men would be, 18. 

our passion dies, 19. 

painted fair, 18. 

sad as, 17. 

trumpet-tongued, 18. 

wake thee, 245. 

would be gods, 18. 
Angels' visits, short, 19. 

short and far between, 19. 
Anger a wise man, 19. 

countenance more in sorrow, 19. 

of his lip, 19. 
Angling, innocent recreation, 307. 

like poetry, 19. 
Angry ape, 18. 

be ye, and sin not, 19. 

Heaven is not always, 19. 
Anguish, hopeless, 19. 

lessened by another's, 19. 
; Animated bust', 20. 
1 Anna, hear, thou great, 298. 
t Annals of the poor, 20. 
Annihilate space and time, 20. 
Anointed, rail on the Lord's, 20. 
I Another and the same, 20. 



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INDEX. 



Another's and another's, 20. 

brow, 20. 

sword laid him low, 20. 
Answer, a soft, 20. 

bells, each other, 20. 
Anthems, singing of, 20. 
Anthropophagi, 20. 
Antidote, sweet oblivions, 20. 
Antipodes to common sense, 20. 
Antres vast, 21. 

Anything, what is worth in, 21. 
Ape and tiger die, 39. 
Apollo's laurel bough, 102. 

lute, musical as, 21, 179. 

lute, strung, 63. 
Apollos watered, 21. 
Apostle of Temperance, 21. 
Apostles fled, she, when, 21. 

in swallow-tail coats, 116. 
Apostolic blows and knocks, 21. 
Apparel, every true man's, 21. 

proclaims the man, 21. 
Apparitions, blushing, 21. 
Appeal unto Caesar, 21. 
Appearance, judge not by, 21. 
Appetite alter, 21. 

comes with eating, 22. 

good digestion wait on, 22. 

grown by what it fed on, 22. 

hungry edge of, 22. 

to breakfast with what, 22. 
Applaud to the very echo, 22. 
Applause, attentive to his own, 152. 
Apple of his eye, 22. 

rotten at heart, 22. 
Apples, choice in rotten, 22. 

for, and for cakes, 179. 

of gold, 22. 
Appliance, desperate, 22. 
Appliances and means to boot, 22. 
Apprehension, death is most in, 22. 

in, how like a God, 3. 

of the good, 22. 
Approbation from Sir Hubert, 22. 
Approving Heaven, 23. 
Apres moi le deluge, 6. 
April day, uncertain glory of, 23. 
Arabia, all, breathes from yonder box, 
23. 

all the perfumes of, 23. 
Araby's daughter, 23. 



Araby the blest, 23. 

Arcades ambo, 48. 

Archangel ruined, 23. 

Archer, insatiate, 23. 

Architect of his own fortune, 24. 

Architecture of the world, 24. 

Are but the varied God, 13. 

Argent revelry, 24. 

Argue not against Heaven, 24. 

though vanquished, 24. 
Argues yourself unknown, 24. 
Argument, highth of this great, 105. 

staple of his, 24. 
Ark of her magnificent cause, 24. 

rolls of Noah's, 24. 
Armida's palace, 24. 
Armies clad in iron, 24. 

swore terribly, 24. 
Armour is his honest thought, 25. 
Armourers, accomplishing the 

knights, 25. 
Arms and the man, 25. 

of seeming, 25. 

take your last embrace, 25. 
Army with banners, 25. 
Arrant gull, 25. 
Arrow for the heart, 115. 

o'er the house, 25. 
Arrows, Cupid kills with, 25. 
Ars longa, 26 (note). 
Art, adorning with so much, 25. 

beyond the reach of, 26. 

ease in writing comes from, 25. 

empire, earth, 326. 

is long, 26. 

last and greatest, 26, 52. 

may err, 26. 

of God, 26. 

than all the gloss of, 26. 

to blot, 26. 

to cover guilt, 26. 

with curious, 26. 
Artificer, unwashed, 321. 
Artless jealousy, 26. 
Arts and eloquence, mother of, 26. 

fashion's brightest, 177. 

in which the wise excel, 26. 

which I loved, 26. 
As dreadful as the Manichean, 5. 

good as a play, 27. 

he thinketh, 27. 



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INDEX. 



341 



As I lay a-thinkinge. 27. 

it fell upon a day. 27. 

in a theatre, 4. 
Ashbume romantic glides, 113. 
Ashes and a shade. 27. 

lie gently on my. 27, 127 (note). 

of his fathers, 27. 

of your sires. 27. 

to ashes. 27. 

wonted lires live in, 27. 
Ask and have. 28. 

and it shall be °'iven, 27. 

death-beds. 28." 

me no questions, 28. 

not of me, 28. 

of thyself, 28. 

sin of what, 28. 

what is happiness. 28. 
Askelon, in the streets of. 28. 
Asleep, the houses seem, 28. 

as soon fell fast, 28. 
Asmodeus flight, 28. 
Aspect, grave, 29. 
Aspen, quivering, 17. 
Aspicks' tongues, 28. 
Aspiring blood of Lancaster, 28. 
Ass, egregiously an, 29. 

in rev'rend purple, 184. 

write me down an, 29. 

your dull, 29. 
Assassination, trammel up, 29. 
Assume a virtue, 29. 
Assurance double sure, 29. 

of a man, 29. 
Astronomer, undevout, 29. 
Atheism, the owlet, 29. 
Atheist by night, 29. 
Atheist's laugh *s poor exchange, 29. 
Athens, the eye of Greece, 26^ 
Atlantean shoulders, SO. 
Atlantic, where the, rolls, 526. 
Atomies, a team of little, 6. 
Attempt, and not the deed, 30. 

the end, 30. 
Attendance, to dance, 30. 
Attention still as night, SO. 
Atticus were he, 204. 
Attire, rise and sit in soft, 30. 

walk in silk, 292. 
Audience lit, though few, 30. 
Augury, we defy, 30. 



Auld acquaintance, 30. 

Ayr, 31. 
Author, choose as friend, 83. 

'tis but an, 30. 
Authors alone, 30. 
Autumn nodding, 30. 

yellow, 30. 
Avon to the tide, 30. 

to the tide of Severn, 30. 
Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen, 31 . 
Awe of such a thing as I, 31. 
Awful pause, 31. 
Axe laid to the root, 31. 

to grind, 31. 
Azure circle of heavens, 207 (note). 

Babbies,where God sends, 166 (note). 
Babbled of green fields, 32. 
Babe, bent o'er her, 32. 
Babel, stir of the great, 256. 
Baby lingers, 32. 

public a great, 32. 
Bachelor, I would die a, 32. 
Back and side, go bare, 32. 

thumps upon your, 32. 

to the field, 32. 
Backing of your friends, 33. 

a plague upon such, 33. 
Bad eminence, 33. 
Badge of all our tribe, 33. 
Baffled oft is ever won, 27. 
Bag and baggage, 33. 
Bailey, unfortunate Miss, 321. 
Balaam, sad Sir*, 33. 
Balance, dust of the, 33. 
Balances, weighed in the, S3. 
Bald street, 33. 
Bales unopened, 33. 
Ballad, a, to moon, S3. 
Ballad-mongers, same metre, 33. 
Ballads of a nation, 33. 34. 
Ballads sung from a cart, 33. 
Balm in Gilead, 34. 
Balm of hurt minds, 34. 
Bane and antidote, 34. 

of all that dread, the devil, 34. 
Banish plump Jack, 34. 
Bank, I know a, 34. 
Bankrupt of life, 34. 

what a, 34. 
Banner, star-spangled, 34. 



342 



INDEX. 



Banners, hang out our, 34. 
Banquet-hall'deserted, 34. 
Banquet o'er, when the, 35. 
Baptized in tears, 32. 
Bar, invidious, 35. 

sweat and wrangle at, 35. 
Barbarians, young, 35. 
Barbaric tings, pearl and gold, 33. 
Barbarous skill, 25. 
Barber, married the, 246. 
Bare imagination of a feast, 22. 
Bark attendant sail, 35. 

a helmless, 35. 

worse than bite, 35. 
Barks, fox not, 35. 
Barleycorn, John, 35. 
Barnacle Family, 35. 
Barren sceptre, 35. 
Base in kind, 36. 

is the slave that pays, 36. 

uses, 36. 
Baseless fabric of this vision, 10. 
Baseness, I hear of, 36. 

of her lot, 36. 

we would hide, 36. 
Baser sort, lewd fellows, 36. 
Bastard to the time, 36. 
Bastion fringed with fire, 36- 
Bated breath, 36. 
Battalions, heaviest, 179. 

sorrows come in, 36. 
Battle and the breeze, 36. 

charming thing, 36. 

freedom's, once begun, 27. 

mighty fallen in, 36. 

not to the strong, 37. 

perilous edge of, 36. 
Battled for the time, 37. 
Battle 's magnificently-stern array,37. 
Battles, fought his, o'er, 37. 

sieges, passed, 37. 
Battlements, bore stars, 37. 
Bay the moon, 37, 119. 
Be-all and the end-all, 29. 
Be England what she will, 132. 

just and fear not, 13. 

not the first, 37. 

of good cheer, 37. 

plain in dress, 37. 

sober, be vigilant, 5. 

thou familiar, 37. 



Be to her virtues very kind, 57. 

to, or not to be, 38. 

wise to-day, 37. 

wise with speed, 37. 

wisely worldly, 38. 
Beach, there came to the, 137. 
Beadle to a humorous sigh, 38. 
Beads and prayer-books, 38. 
Bear, like the Turk, 38. 

the palm alone, 38. 

to, is to conquer, 38. 

up and steer right onward. '24. 

who's to kill the, 38. 
Beard and hoary hair, 39. 

as bung, 38. 

as youth gave, 39. 

the lion, 39. 
Beards wag all, 39. 
Bears and lions growl, 120. 
Beast familiar to man, 39. 

righteous man regardeth, 39. 

that wants discourseofreason,39. 

working out the, 39. 
Beaumont, lie a little further, 39. 

nearer Spenser, 39. 
Beauties of exulting Greece, 39. 

of the North, 39. 

of the night, 40. 
Beautiful, and to be wooed. 40. 

as sweet, 40. 

beyond compare, 40. 

tyrant, 40. 

\ enice, 63. 
Beautifully less, 40. 
Beauty, a thing of. 40. 

as could die, 41. 

call, 'tis not lip, 40. 

calls and glory leads. 40. 

draws us with a single hair, 40. 

dedicate to the sun, 10. 

excelled by manly grace, 329. 

fills the air, 40. 

for ashes, 40. 

helped by nature, 42. 

immortal, 40. 

in his life, 41. 

is but a flower, 41. 

is truth, 41. 

it is not, 1 demand, 42. 

like wit, 41. 

lines where, linger, 41. 



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343 



Beauty of woman's eye, 41. 

she walks in, 41. 

smiling in her tears, 41. 

truly "blent, 41. 
Beauty's chain. 42. 

ensign. 4-2. 
Beaux, where none are, 42. 
Bed at Ware, 42. 

of honour, 42. 

who goes to, sober, 42. 
Bedfellows, strange, 42. 
Bee, the little busy, 42. 

where the. sucks, 42. 
Beetle, poor, 22. 
Beer, chronicle small, 43. 
Bees innumerable, 43. 
Beggar begs that never, 43. 

dumb, may challenge double 
pity, 43. 

maid, loved the, 43. 
Beggared all description, 43. 
Beggarly account of empty boxes, 43. 

last doit, 43. 
Beggars die, when, 43. 
Beggary in love, 43. 
Beginning half the deed done, 43. 

of our end, 43. 

of the end, 43. 
Begone, dull care, 44. 
Beguile her of her tears. 44. 
Behold, now is the accepted time, 2. 
Belated peasant, 44. 
Belgium's capital, 140. 
Belial, sons of, 44. 
Belief, prospect of, 44. 
Bell, church-going, 44. 

dinner, 44, 200. 

invites me, 200. 

silence that dreadful, 44. 

strikes one. 44. 

sullen, sounds as a, 44. 
Bells jangled out of tune, 44. 

those evening, 44. 

those village, 44, 83. 
Belly, fair round, 8. 

is their god, 45. 
Belly-full of fighting, 45. 
Beneath the Good how far, 45. 

the milk-white thorn, 45. 
Bench of heedless bishops, 45. 
Bendemeer's stream, 45. 



Benedick, the married man, 45. 
Benevolence warms, 45. 
Bent, top of my, 45. 
Bermoothes, still-vexed, 45. 
Berries, come to pluck your, 45. 

two lovely, 45. 
Bess, good Queen, 191. 
: Best but shadows, 45. 

good man, 45. 

men moulded out of faults, 45. 

of men, 46. 

portion of a good man's life, 4. 
Better a dinner of herbs, 46. 

lifty years of Europe, 73. 

spared a better man. 46. 

the worse appear, 46. 

to be lowly born, 46. 

to reign in hell, 15. 
i Between a single 6c a double rap, 46. 

the acting of a, 3. 
, Betwixt wind and nobility, 46. 

Bevis bold, 46. 
i Beware of desperate steps, 46. 

of entrance to a quarrel, 46. 
Bezonian, under which king, 46. 
Bible of the fool, 47. 

tucked beneath arm, 47. 
■ Big with the fate of Rome, 47. 
Bigness which you see. 47. 
Billow, azure, roars, 159. 
Billows, swelling, 47. 
Binding nature fast in fate, 47. 
Bird of dawning, 47. 

of the air, 47. 

that shunn'st, 47. 
Birds in last year's nest, 47. 

of a feather, 318 (note). 

of the air, 157. 
Birth is but a sleep, 47. 

nothing but our death, 47. 
Biscuit, remainder, 48. 
Bishopric forepass them bye, 48. 
Bitter cross, 2. 

is a scornful jest, 48. 
Bitterness, heart knoweth his own, 
177. 

of things, 48. 
Black spirits and white, 48. 

to red began to turn, 48. 
I Black's not so black, 327. 
| Blackberries, plentiful as, 48. 



344 



INDEX. 



Blackbird to whistle, 48. 
Blackguards both, 48. 
Bladder, like a, 48. 
Bladders of philosophy, 48. 
Blade, heart-stain on, 49. 
Blades of grass to grow, 49. 
Blameless vestal's lot, 49. 
Blandishments of life, 96. 
Blank day, 33. 

history, 49. 
Blast of war, 49: 

upon bugle-horn, 66. 
Blaze forth the death of princes, 43. 
Bleak world alone, 178. 
Bleed the many, 49. 
Bleeding country save, 49. 
Blessed, more, to give, 49. 

who ne'er was born, 49. 
Blessedness, single, 129. 
Blesses his stars, 49. 
Blessing like line of light, 49. 

most need of, 16. 

on the waters, 49. 
Blessings and eternal praise, 50. 

brighten, 50. 

on virtuous deeds, 49. 
Blest, always to be, 50. 

1 have been, 50. 

paper credit, 50. 
Blind bard, 50. 

be to her faults, 37. 

eyes to the, 50. 

Fury, 145. 

guides, 50. 

hysterics, 50. 

if the blind lead the, 50. 

old man, 50. 
Bliss centres in the mind, 51. 

domestic happiness, 50. 

gained by every woe, 50. 

of solitude, 51. 

to be alive, 51. 

virtue makes the, 51. 

waking, 324. 

winged hours of, 19. 
Blockhead, the bookful, 51. 
Blood, chambers of the, 14. 

felt in, 51. 

follow the knife, 51. 

hey-day in the, 181. 

of all the Howards, 51. 



Blood of the martyrs, 51. 

oat of a stone, 51. 

rebellious liquors in my, 51. 

spoke in her cheeks, 51. 

stirs to rouse a lion, 52. 

thoughts that thick my, 52. 

wash ambition's hands, 51. 

weltering in, 52. 

whoso sheddeth, 52. 

will follow where knife is driven, 
152. 
Bloody instructions, 52. 

Mary, 191. 
Bloom of young Desire, 52. 
Bloomed in winter of days, 52. 
Blossom in the dust, 3. 
Blot, dying he could wish to, 52. 

the art to, 52. 
Blotted it out for ever, 17. 
Blow, adore the hand that gives, 4. 

and crack your cheeks, 52. 

bless the hand that gave, 4(note) . 

themselves must strike, 52. 

thou winter wind, 52. 
Blows of circumstance, 35. 
Blue, deeply, beautifully, 53. 

the fresh, the ever free, 53. 
Blunder, frae monie a, 286. 

in men, 53. 

worse than a crime, 53. 
Blushed before, 53. 
Blushing honours, 53. 
Boast not of to-morrow, 53. 

patriot's, 53. 
Boats, little, keep near shore, 53. 
Bobbed for a whale, 53. 
Bodkin, bare, 53. 
Body, form doth take, 54. 

thought, one might say her, 51. 
Bodies forth, imagination, 10. 
Boeotian air, dull, 124. 
Boeotum in crasso, 124 (note). 
Bond, nominated in the, 54. 

of fate, 29. 
Bondman, who would be a, 54. 
Bone and Skin, 152. 
Bones are coral, 54. 

full of dead men's, 54. 

good interred with, 54. 

lay his weary, 54. 
Booby, who'd give her, 54. 



INDEX. 



345 



Book and volume of brain, 60. 

as good kill a man as a, 55. 

dainties in a, 54. 

face is as a, 55. 

of honour, 55. 

of nature, short of leaves, 55. 

precious life-blood, 55. 

to think I read a, 55. 
Bookful blockhead, 51. 
Book's a book, 55. 
Books a substantial world, 122. 

cannot always please, 55. 

in the running brooks, 5. 

learning wiser without, 56. 

making of, no end, 55. 

on his head, 55. 

quit your, 56. 

some to be tasted, 55. 

spectacles of, 56. 

the printers lost by, 55. 

were woman's looks, 56. 

which are no books, 56. 
Bo-peep, played at, 56. 
Bores and bored, 56. 
Born, better ne'er been, 55. 

in the garret, 56. 

to consume fruits of earth, 56. 

to blush unseen, 57. 

under a rhyming planet, 56. 
Borne down by the flying, 57. 
Borrower nor lender be, 57. 
Borrowing goes sorrowing, 57. 
Bosom, black as death, 57. 

of his Father, 57. 
Bosom's lord sits lightly, 57. 
Bosomed high in tufted trees, 57. 
Bosoms, come home to men's, 57. 
Boston, solid men of, 57. 
Botanize upon his mother's grave, 58. 
Both were so young, 58. 
Bottle and kind landlady, 58. 
Bottom, thou art translated, 58. 
Bounds of modesty, 58. 
Bounty, large was his, 58. 
Bourbon or Nassau, 58. 
Bourn, no traveller returns, 54. 
Bow, stubborn knees, 57. 
Bowels of compassion, 59. 

of the harmless earth, 59. 

of the land, 59. 
Bowers of bliss, 288. 



Bowl, with my friendly, 59. 

golden, be broken, 59. 
Boy, who would not be, 59. 
Boys, go wooing in my, 59. 
Boyish blushing time, 59. 
Boy's, heart of existence beat like, 59. 
Bozrah, with dyed garments from, 59. 
Braggart with my tongue, 59. 
Brain, heat-oppressed, 60. 

him with his lady's fan, 60. 

memory, warder of the, 60. 

paper-bullets of the, 60. 

troubles of the, 20. 

very coinage of your, 60. 

volume of my, 60. 
Brains, cudgel thy, 29, 60. 
" Brains, sir!" 60. 

steal away their, 60. 

were out, 60. 
Branch-charmed by earnest stars, 

172, 287. 
Brandy-and- water, 118. 
Brandy for heroes, 60. 
Brass, evil manners live in, 60. 

sounding, 60. 
Brave days of old, 184. 

deserve the fail*, 60. 

how sleep the, 60. 

o'erhanging firmament, 151. 

on ye, 60. 
Breach, more honoured in the, 61. 
Breach, imminent deadly, 2. 
Bread, distressful, 61. 

eaten in secret, 61. 

man shall not live by, 61. 

took, and brake, 61. 

upon the waters, 61. 
Break, O sea, 61. 
Breakfast on the lip of a lion, 61. 
Breast, savage, 233. 

snowy, 334. 

within his own clear, 61. 
Breastplate, what stronger, 61. 
Breath can make them, 61. 

good man yields, 62. 

weary of, 62. 
Breathes like a bright-eyed face, 62. 

there the man, 62. 

who, must suffer, 49. 
Breathing soft and low, 206. 

stone. 62. 



346 



INDEX. 



Breech, where honour's lodged, 62. 
Breeches, and chimaeras, 62. 
Breeches, black velvet, 62. 

cost a crown, 62. 
Breed of noble bloods, 62. 
Breeks off a Highlandman, 51. 
Brentford, two kings of, 62. 
Brethren in unity, 62. 
Brevity is the soul of wit, 63. 
Bribe, too poor for a, 63. 
Bricks are alive, 63. 
Bride of the sea, 63. 
Bridge of Sighs, 63. 
Brief as the lightning, 63. 

as woman's love, 63. 

authority, 18. 
Briers, working -day full of, 63. 
Brigade, the Light, 63. 
Bright Apollo's lute, 63. 

honour, 63. 

particular star, 64. 

promise of early days, 63. 

waters meet, 64. 
Brightest and best of the sons of 

the morning, 74. 
Brightest still the fleetest, 12. 
Bright-eyed face, 62. 

Fancy, 64. 
Brightness, purity, and truth, 18. 
Britain boasts her British hosts, 222. 
Britannia needs no bulwarks, 64. 

rules the waves, 64. 
Britannia's boast, 334. 
Brither, like a vera, 65. 
British man, 150. 
Britons never will be slaves, 64. 
Broad -based upon people's will, 64. 
Broad-cloth without, 64. 
Brook and river meet, 64. 

and river meet, where, 271. 

can see no moon, 64. 

noise like a hidden, 64. 

sparkling with a, 64. 
Brooks, books in the running, 5. 
Brother, exquisite to relieve, 65. 

near the throne, 38. 
Brother's keeper, 65. 
Brotherhood in song, 65. 

monastic, 65. 
Brothers in distress, 65. 

men the workers, 65. 



Brow for love to banquet royally, 256. 
Brows, gathering her, 65. 
Bruised reed, 65. 
Brutus is an honourable man, 65. 
Bubble on the fountain, 208. 

reputation, 8. 
Bubbles, the earth hath, 65. 
Bubbling cry, 65. 
Bucket, the old oaken, 65. 
Buckets into empty wells, 65. 
Buckram, rogues in, 65. 
Bud to heaven conveyed, 66. 
Bugle horn, one blast upon, 66. 
Bugles sang truce, 66. 
Build the lofty rhyme, 66. 
Builded better than he knew, 66. 
Built a lordly pleasure-house, 66. 

God a church, 66 y 83. 

in the eclipse, 66. 
Bulwark, floating, 66. 
Burden and heat of the day, 66. 

bear his own, 67. 

of some merry song, 66. 

of the mystery, 66. 

the grasshopper a, 67. 
Burglary, flat, 67. 
Buried, the, are not lost, 239. 
Burned is Apollo's laurel bough, 102. 
Burnished sun, 67. 
Burnt like a fringe of fire, 67. 
Burst in ignorance, 67. 
Bush, good wine needs no, 67. 

the thief fears each, 67. 
Bushboy, the silent, 113. 
Bushel, put candle under, 67. 
Busy hum of men, 67. 

hammers, 25. 
But me no buts, 252 (note). 

thinks admitted to that sky, 4. 
Butter in a lordly dish, 67. 
Butterfly upon a wheel, 67. 
Button on Fortune's cap, 67. 
Buy the truth, 67. 

to-morrow, 71. 
By strangers mourned, 67. 
By that sin fell the Angels, 16. 

Cabined, cribbed, confined, 68. 
Cadmean victory, 68. 
Cadmus gave, 266. 
Caesar had his Brutus, 68. 



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347 



Caesar hath wept, 15. 

I appeal unto, 21. 

in every wound of, 68. 

not that I loved, less, 68. 

said to me, Darest, 2. 

turned to clay, 68. 

with a senate, 69. 

word of, 68. 
Caesar's wife above suspicion, 68. 
Cage, nor iron bars a, 69. 
Cain the first city made, 69. 
Cake, eat one's, and have it, 69. 

is dough, 69. 
Cakes and ale, 69. 
Calamity man's touchstone, 69. 
Caledonia stern and wild, 69. 
Calf's-skin on recreant limbs, 69. 
Called the tailor lown, 62. 
Calm and serene he drives, 274. 

lights of philosophy, 69. 
Calumny, not escape, 69. 
Cambuscan bold, story of, 70. 
Cambyses' vein, 70. 
Camel through eye of needle, 70. 
Camilla, when scours the plain, 11. 
Can any mortal mixture, 70. 

such things be, 70. 
Candle, matche withe sunne, 70. 

out, brief, 70. 

throws his beams, 70. 
Candied tongue lick pomp, 70. 
Cankers of a calm world, 70. 
Cannot but remember, 70. 
Canon 'gainst self- slaughter, 71. 
Canopied by the blue sky, 71. 
Cap of youth, 71. 
Captain ill, 71. 

Captain's a choleric word, 71. 
Capulets, tomb of the, 71. 
Carcass, eagles will gather to, 71. 
Card, we must speak by the, 1. 
Care adds a nail, 71. 

cast awav, 71. 

fig for, 109. 

keeps his watch, 71. 

o' the mam chance, 71. 

wrinkled, 88. 
Care's an enemy to life, 71. 
Career of his humour, 60. 
Cares beguiled by sports. 72. 

heart of a man depressed with, 
178. 



Cares, fret thy soul with, 72. 
Carpegie, John, lais here, 58 (note). 
Carry gentle peace in right hand, 13. 
C art, now traversed the, 72. 
Casca, the envious, 72. 
Cassius, lean and hungry, 72. 
Cast away care, 71. 

set my life upon a, 72. 

thy bread, 61. 
Castle, a man's house is his, 72. 
Casuists doubt, 72. 
Cat, bell the, 72. 

endow a college or a, 72. 

i' the adage, 72. 

will mew, 73. 
Catalogue, in the, ye go for men, 73. 
Cataract, the sounding, 73. 
Cataracts, silent, 73. 
Catastrophe, I'll tickle your, 73. 
Catch the conscience, 73. 

the driving gale, 73. 
Caters for the sparrows, 6. 
Cathay, cycle of, 73. 
Cathedral doctor, 184. 
Cato and of Rome, 47. 

the sententious, 73. 
Cats and young Kits, 200. 
Caucasian mind, 73. 
Caucasus, frosty, 22. 
Cause, hear me for my, 73. 

me no causes, 252 (note). 

of mankind, 73. 
Caution, cold pausing, 74. 
Cave, interlunar, 74. 
Caviare to the general, 74. 
Celestial rosy-red, 74. 
Censure, take each man's, 46. 
Centre of earth's noblest ring, 199. 
Cerberus, three gentlemen, 74. 
Ceremony to great ones, 74. 
Cervantes' serious air, 74. 
Chaff, hid in two bushels of, 74. 
Chair, one vacant, 74. 

rack of a too easy, 74. 
Chamber where the good man meets 

his fate, 75. 
Chambers of the blood, 14. 
Champagne and a chicken, 75. 

gin fetch price of, 163. 
Champion of the people's cause, 271. 
Chance decides fate of monarchs, 75. 



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Chancellor in embryo, 45. 
Change came o'er my dream, 75. 

of many-coloured life, 75. 

ringing grooves of, 75. 

such a, 75. 
Chanticleer, crow like, 75. 
Chaos and old Night, 75. 

is come again, 76. 

of thought, 75. 
Character, 1 leave behind, 76. 
Characters from high life, 76. 

of hell, 16. 
Charge, Chester, charge, 76. 
Chapel, the devil builds a, 76. 
Charities that soothe, 76. 
Charity covers multitude of sins, 76. 

melting, 76. 
Charm he never so wisely, 4. 

one native, 24. 

that lulls to sleep, 159. 

to stay the morning star, 76. 
Charmed life, 76. 
Charmer sinner it or saint it, 76. 

t'other dear, away, 76. 
Charmers, voice of, 4. 
Charms strike the sight, 76. 
Chariest maid, 76. 
Charybdis, your mother, 76. 
Chaste as ice, 69. 

as morning dew, 77. 
Chastity, saintly, 18. 
Chatham's language, 15. 
Chatter like a crane, 77. 
Chatterton, marvellous boy, 77. 
Cheap defence of nations, 17. 

extremely dear, 77. 
Cheat, life 'tis all a, 77. 
Cheated, I hate to be, 77. 

pleasure of being, 77. 
Cheek, feed on her damask, 77. 

he that loves a rosv, 78. 

of Night, 78. 

pleasant-smiling, 256. 

tears down Pluto's, 78. 

that I might touch, 78. 

the roses from your, 78. 
Cheer but not inebriate, 88. 
Cheerful godliness, 78. 

yesterdays, 78. 
Cheese, green, 78. 

moon made of green, 78. 



Cherrie of her lips, 78. 
Cherry, like to a double, 79. 

ripe, 78. 

ripe, ripe, 78 (note). 
Cherub, sweet little, 310. 
Cherubins, young-eyed, 79. 
Chest of drawers by day, 79. 
Chewing the food of fancy, 79. 
Chickens, all my pretty, 79. 

count your, ere they are hatched, 
79. 
Chief, the brilliant, 280. 
Chief's, vain was the, pride, 79. 
Chiel's amang you takin' notes, 79. 
Child, a curious, 80. 

a naked new-born, 80. 

a simple, 80. 

a three years', 80. 

a wise father that knows his 
own, 80. 

grief rills the room of absent, 79. 

I spake as a, 81. 

is father of the man, 80. 

of misery, 32. 

of Natur', 80. 

of suffering, 81. 

spoil the, 81. 

to have a thankless, 81. 

train up a, 81. 
Child's heart within the man's, 81. 

sob curseth deeper, 81. 
Childhood, my days of, 31. 

shows the man, 81. 
Childhood's hour, 81. 
Childish pipes, 8. 

waste of philosophic pains, 81. 
Childishness, second, 8. 
Children call her blessed, 81. 

gathering pebbles, 82. 

know friend or foe, 81. 

of an idle brain, 82. 

of larger growth, 82. 

of light, 82. 

of the sun, 82. 

of this world, 96. 

Rachel weeping for her, 82. 

weeping, do ye hear, 119. 
Chimes at midnight, 82. 
Chimney-corner, men from the, 82. 
Chimaeras dire, 82. 
Chin, some bee had stung, 82. 



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349 



Chinks that time has made, 82. 
Chloris, could I now but sit, 82. 
Choorch, coomed too's, 315. 
Choose not alone a proper mate, 83. 
Choose your author, 83. 
Chord in melancholy, 83. 

in unison, 83. 
Christ, shall come, 328. 

to live is, 161. 

went agin war and pillage, 83. 
Christian dooty, 83. 

faithful man, 122. 

God Almighty's gentleman, 83, 
162, 165. 

ground, 162. 

highest style of man, 83. 
Christians burned each other, 83. 
Christmas bells, 20. 

comes once a year, 83. 
Chrysolite, perfect, 83. 
Church, a man may cry, 305. 

nearer to, 84. 

who builds God a, 83. 
Church-door, wide as a, 84. 
Churches in flat countries, 292 (note). 

shut, 84. 
Churchyards yawn, 84. 
Cimmerian darkness, 84. 
Circumlocution Office, 84, 185. 
Circumstance allows, the best, 84. 

blows of, 35. 
Cities, far from gay, 84. 
Citizens, man made us, 84. 

with terror dumb, 327. 
City set on an hill, 84. 
Civet, ounce of, 84. 
Civil dissension, 85. 
Claims of long descent, 85. 
Clapper-clawing, 85. 
Claret the liquor for boys, 60. 
Classic ground, 85. 
Clay and clay differ, 85. 

blind his soul with, 85. 

of human kind, 85. 

the tenement of, 85. 
Clear as a whistle, 85. 

in his great office, 18. 
Clerk, foredoomed, 247. 
Clink of hammers, 85. 
Clock, look at the, 86. 

varnished, 79. 



Clock, worn out, 85. 
Clod, kneaded, 86. 
Clothing, the palpable, 86. 
Close-buttoned to the chin, 64. 
Close of the day, 86. 
Cloud-capped towers, 10. 
Cloud of witnesses, 86. 

out of the sea, 86. 

sable, 86. 
Cloudless climes, 41. 
Clouds of glory, 164. 

that lowered, 86. 
Clubs, typical of strife, 86. 
Coach, go call a, 87. 
Coals of fire on his head, 87. 
Coat buttoned down before, 87. 
Cockloft is empty, 87, 177 (note). 
Coffee makes the politician wise, 87. 
Coigne of vantage, 87. 
Coil, not worth this, 87. 
Coinage of your brain, 60. 
Cold in clime, cold in blood, 87. 

the changed, 87. 

waters to a thirsty soul, 87. 
Coldly sweet, 87. 
Coliseum, while stands the, 87. 
Cologne, wash your city of, 88. 
Colossus, bestride the world, 88. 
Columbia, happy land, 88. 
Column, throws up a steamy, 88. 
Combat deepens, 60. 
Come, and trip it, 88. 

as the winds, 88. 

gentle Spring, 88. 

like shadows, 88. 

live with me, 88. 

one, come all, 88. 

what come may, 89. 
Comforters, miserable, 89. 
Coming events, 89. 
Command and be obeyed, 28. 
Commentators each dark passage 
shun, 89. 

plain, 89. 
Common sense, antipodes to, 20. 

souls, flight of, 89. 

sun, 89. 
Commonplace of nature, 89. 
Commonwealth, bowels of the, 85. 
Communion sweet, quaff, 89. 

nature holds, 89. 



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Company, faithful dog shall bear 

him, 4. 
Comparisons are odious, 89. 

are odorous, 89. 
Compass, a narrow, 89. 

in God's providences, 89. 
Compassed by inviolate sea, 64, 90. 
Complain, what boots it to, 327. 
Complete steel, 90, 305. 
Complexion, mislike me not for my, 

67. 
Complies against his will, 90. 
Composture of excrement, 90. 
Compound for sins, 90. 

of crime, 163. 
Compunctious visitings, 90. 
Compute, -what's done we may, 90. 
Comrade with the wolf, 237. 
Concatenation accordingly, 90. 
Concealment, like the worm, 77. 
Conceit, man wise in his own, 90. 
Conceits, wise in your own, 90. 
Conception to the bourn of heaven, 

90. 
Conclusion, a foregone, 90. 
Concord of sweet sounds, 90. 
Condemn the fault, 91. 
Condorcet filtered, 123. 
Conduct of a clouded cane, 91. 

still right, 91. 
Conference a ready man, 270, 
Confines where daylight, 91 . 
Confirmations strung, 91. 
Conflict, dire was the noise of, 91. 
Confusion, his masterpiece, 91. 

worse confounded, 91. 
Congealed Laplanders, 91. 
Congregate, merchants. 91. 
Conjectures, I am weary of, 91. 
Conquer love, they that run, 91. 
Conquerors, a lean fellow beats all, 

91. 
Conquest, ever since the, 92. 

has explored more than curio- 
sity, 91. 
Conscience makes cowards, 54. 

more to do with gallantry, 92. 

of her worth, 92. 
Conscious water, 92. 
Consecrate a crime, 92. 
Consecration and poet's dream, 92. 



I Conservative by nature, 92. 

Consideration, like an angel, 4. 
• Constable, outrun the, at last, 92. 

Constant as the northern star, 92. 
! Constancy in wind, 92. 

Contagion from her sable wings, 92. 
: Contagious blastments, 92. 
j Contemplation formed, 93. 
; Content, farewell, 93. 

to dwell in decencies, 93. 
< Contented, when one is, 93. 
I Contentious woman, 93. 
| Contentment, the noblest mind best, 

has, 93. 
l : Contests rise from trivial things, 93. 

Continual plodders, 93. 

Continent, boundless, 238. 

Contortions of the sybil, 93. 

Contradiction, woman's a, 93. 

Conversation's burrs, 93. 

Conversing, I forgot all time, 93. 

Convey, the wise it call, 94. 

Cool grot and mossy cell, 94. 
was his kitchen, 94. 

Cophetua, King, 43. 

Corn, nodding, 30. 

reap an acre of, 94. 

Corner, sits the wind in that, 94. 

Cornishmen, thirty thousand, 270. 

Coronets, kind hearts more than, 94. 

Corporations no souls, 94. 

Corporal sufferance, 22. 

Correspondent to command, 94. 

Corsair's name, he left a, 94. 

Cortez, like stout, 94. 

Costard, rational hind, 94. 

Cot beside the hill, 94. 

Cottage, stood beside a, 95. 

Couch, drapery of his, 95. 

Counsellors, multitude of, 95. 

Countenance, disinheriting, 118. 

Counterfeit presentment, 95. 

Country, first best, 53. 

Godmade the, 69 (note), 95, 165. 
left for country's good, 95. 

Country's cause, 95. 
wishes blessed, 60. 

Courage mounteth, 95. 
iron, 335. 

never to submit or yield, 12. 
screw your, 95. 



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351 



Course, I hare finished my, 95. 

of empire, 95. 

of true love, 96. 
Courtesy, the very pink of, 96. 
Courtier, heel of the, 7. 
Courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, 

228. 
Coventry, not march through, 96. 
Coward on instinct, 96. 

sneaks to death, 96. 

thou slave, 96. 
Cowards die many times, 96. 

men would be, 224. 

plague of all, 96. 
Cowslip's bell I lie, 42. 
Crab tree and old iron rang, 96. 
Crack of doom, 96. 
Cradle and the grave, 96. 
Cradles rock us to tomb, 47. 

stand in the grave, 96. 
Cranny, every, but the right, 97. 
Cras amet, 205. 
Crash of worlds, 97. 
Crazy sorrow, 97. 
Cream of others' books, 208, 
Creation sleeps, 97. 
Creation's chief, 320. 
Creator, remember thy, 97. 
Creature not too bright, 97. 

smarts so little as a fool, 97. 
Creature 's at his dirty work, 97. 
Creatures, delicate, 97. 

millions of spiritual, 97. 

you dissect, 97. 
Crebillon, romances of, 97. 
Creditor, glory of a, 98. 
Credulity, ye who listen with, 98. 
Creed, holding no form of, 294. 
outworn, 98. 
sapping a solemn, 98. 
Creeds, half the, 231. 

knots that tangle, 196. 
Creeping like a snail, 8. 
Cricket on the hearth, 98. 
Crime, compound of, 163. 
consecrate a, 92. 
is crowned, 98. 
Crimes, the dignity of, 98. 

undivulged, 98. 
Crispian, feast of, 98. 
Critical, nothing, if not, 98. 



\ Criticizing elves, 131. 
Critics, ye, say, 334. 
Cromwell, guiltless of country's 

blood, 298. 
Crony, drouthy, 65. 
Crook pregnant binges of knee, 70. 
Crops the flowery food, 99. 
Cross, bitter, 2. 
last at his, 21. 
sparkling, she wore, 99. 
Crotchets in thy head now, 99. 
Crowd, foremost, 99. 
Crowded hour of glorious life, 8. 
Crowes foot, the black, 99. 
Crown and kingdom, 99. 
head that wears a, 99. 
how sweet it is to wear a, 99 

(note), 
of glory, 99. 
of life, 99. 
of sorrow, 99. 

ourselves with rosebuds, 99. 
Cruel as death, 99. 

only to be kind, 99. 
Crumbs, dogs eat of the, 99. 
Crutch, shouldered his, 99. 
Cry, all, and no wool, 12. 
havoc, 100. 
is still they come, 34. 
Crystal brow, 42. 
Palace, 100. 
Cuckoo, in June, 100. 

to welcome in spring, 100. 
Cucumber, cool as a, 100. 
Cudgel thy brains no more, 29, 60, 
Cunning, right hand forget, 100. 
Cunning in fence, 100. 
Cup, kiss but in the, 100. 
life's enchanted, 206. 
of errour, 100. 
Cupid painted blind, 100. 
Cupid's curse, 212. 
Cups, in their flowing, 185. 

that cheer, 88. 
Cur of low degree, 100. 
Curled darlings of our nation, 100. 
Current of a woman's will, 100. 
Current of domestic joy, 101 . 
Curs mouth a bone, 101. 
Curse on all laws, 101. 
terrible, 101. 



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INDEX. 



Cursed be the verse, 101. 
Curses, dark, 66. 

not loud but deep, 101. 
Cushion and soft dean, 101. 
Custom always in the afternoon, 101. 

honoured in breach, 61. 

house for sin, 102. 
Cut blocks with a razor, 102. 

is the branch, 102. 

the most unkind est, 102. 
Cutpurse of the empire, 102. 
Cycle and epicycle, 102. 
Cynosure of neighbouring eyes, 102. 
Cynthia of this minute, 102. 
Cytherea's breath, 103. 

Daffodils before the swallows, 103. 

fair, 103. 
Dagger, is this a, 60. 
Daggers of the mind, 60. 

speak, to her, 103. 
Daggers-drawing, 85. 
Dainties bred in book, 54. 
Daisies pied, 57, 103. 
Dale, haunts in, 103. 
Dalliance, path of, 104. 
Damien's bed of steel, 104. 
Damn those authors never read, 104. 

with faint praise, 104. 
Damnable iteration, 104. 
Damnation of his taking off, 18. 

round the land, 104. 
Damned nor hissed, neither, 104. 

to fame, 99. 
Damsel lay deploring, 104. 
Dan Chaucer, 132. 

Cupid, 104. 

to Beersheba, 104. 
Dance, learned to, 25. 

on with the, 104. 
Danger, out of this nettle, 105. 
Danger's troubled night, 105. 
Dangerous, something in me, 303. 
Dangers, loved me for, 105. 
Daniel come to judgment, 105. 
Dare, 1, what man dare, 105. 

to be true, 105. 

to die, 105. 
Darien, silent upon a peak in, 94. 
Daring dined, 105. 
Dark, illumine what in me is, 105. 



Dark soul, foul thoughts, 61. 

un fathomed caves, 57. 
Darkest day, 46. 
Darkness and the worm, 222. 

jaws of vacant, 195. 

the raven-down of, 105. 

universal, buries all, 16. 

visible, 105. 
Darling sin, 105. 
Dart, Time shall throw a, 106. 
Daughter, harping on my, 106. 

of my house and heart, 4. 
Daughters, fairest of, 4. 

of my father's house, 106. 
David, Is athan said to, 106. 

not only hating, 106. 
Dawn on our darkness, 64. 

on the night in the grave, 106. 
Daw's not reckoned religious bird, 

305. 
Daws to peck at, 106. 
Day, a merry heart goes all the, 177, 

brought back my night, 106. 

each, critic on the last, 106. 

I've lost a, 106. 

jocund, stands tiptoe, 106. 

may bring forth, 53. 

merry as the, 106. 

not to me returns, 106. 

posteriors of, 106. 

sufficient unto the, 107. 

that is dead, 61. 

the great, the important, 47. 

think that, lost, 3. 
Day's march nearer home, 107. 
Days, one of those heavenly, 107. 

race of other, 107. 

sweet childish, 107. 

swifter than a shuttle, 107. 

that are no more, 107. 

the brave, of old, 314. 

the melancholy, 107. 

though fallen on evil, 107. 
Daystar, so sinks the, 107. 
Dazzles to blind, 107. 
Dazzling fence, 108. 
De duobus malis, 205 (note). 
Dead did squeak and gibber, 170. 

flies, 108. 

he mourns the, who lives as 
they desire, 108. 



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353 



Dead in his harness, 108. 

in the arms of the, 108. 

my days among, 108. 

not, but gone before, 108. 

of midnight, 108. 

past bury its dead, 108. 
Dear as the ruddy drops, 108. 
Dearest thing he owed, 108. 
Death and his brother Sleep, 108. 

and Lust, 326. 

be thou faithful unto, 108. 

borders upon our birth, 96. 

by slanderous tongues, 109. 

cometh soon or late, 109. 

coward sneaks to, 96. 

grinned horrible, 109. 

his dart shook, 109. 

in the midst of life, 109. 

in the pot, 109. 

less glory in, lives, 62. 

loves a shining mark, 109. 

makes equal high and low, 109. 

man makes a, 109. 

nature never made, 109. 

O, all seasons thine, 109. 

rides on every breeze, 109. 

ruling passion strong in, 109. 

sense of, 22. 

soul under the ribs of, 110. 

the gate of life, 109. 

they were not divided in, 110. 

thought of terrible, 109. 

to us, play to you, 110. 

urges, knells call, 110. 

wages of sin is, 110. 

what we fear of, 7. 

where is thy sting, 110, 170. 
Death-bed's a detector of the heart, 

110. 
Deathless glorv, in, lives, 62. 
Death's pale flag, 42. 
Debtor to his profession, 110. 
Decay, muddy vesture of, 78. 
Decay's effacing fingers, 41. 
Deceit should dwell in a gorgeous 

palace, 110. 
December's gloomy noon, 110. 
Decencies, content to dwell in, 93. 

that daily flow, 110. 
Decency, emblems right meet of, 110. 

want of, want of sense, 110. 



Deed and flighty purpose, 110. 

dignifies the place, 110. 

the glory of shall remain, 164. 

without a name, 111. 
Deeds, are for men, 315 (note). 

excused his devilish, 111. 

ill, done, 111. 

not words, 111. 

we live in, 111. 
Deep as a well, 84. 

as first love, 111. 

heart of existence, 59. 

in the lowest, a lower, 111. 

potations, 57. 

spirits from the, 111. 

yet clear, 111. 
Deeper than plummet, 111. 
Deep-mouthed welcome, 111. 
Deer, stricken, 112. 

such small, 112. 
Defect, fine by, 150. 
Defend me from my friends, 112. 
Defer not till to-morrow, 112. 
Defiance in their eye, 112. 
Delay, wins, like Fabius, by, 112. 
Deliberates, woman who, 112. 
Delight and mankind's wonder, 18. 

in this fool's paradise, 112. 

into a sacrifice, 112. 

with liberty, 112. 
Delightful task^ 112. 
Delphian vales, 112. 
Delphi's haunted steep, 118. 
Democraty, that fierce, 113. 
Denied, he comes too near who 

comes to be, 113, 290. 
Denmark, something rotten in, 113. 
Derby dilly, 113. 
Desarts, idle, 21. 
Descend, ye Nine, 113. 
Descent and fall adverse, 113. 

claims of long, 85. 
Describe much, nothing prove, 315. 
Desdemona seriously incline, 20. 
Desert, afar in the, 113. 

air, 57. 

blossom as the rose, 113. 

my dwelling-place, 113. 

of a thousand lines, 113. 

shall rejoice, 113. 

use every man after his, 113. 



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Desert wildernesses, 10. 
Desire, dead, 228. 

kindle soft, 113. 

of the moth, 114. 
Despair, fiercer by, 114. 

reason would, 114. 

wasting in, 114. 
Despatchful looks, 114. 
Despond, slough of, 114. 
Destruction, pride goeth before, 114. 
Detraction at your heels, 114. 
Devil a monk was he, 114. 

as a roaring lion, 115. 

assume a pleasing shape, 114. 

can cite Scripture, 115. 

give the, his due, 115. 

himself, 3. 

how the, they got there, 15. 

hunting for one fair female, 115. 

in his quiver, 115. 

laughing, 115. 

poor, go, 115. 

resist the, 115. 

sends cooks, 115. 

take the hindmost, 115. 

tell truth, and shame the, 115. 

to serve the, 115. 

wear black, 115. 

with devil damned, 115. 
Devotion, ignorance,mother of, 115. 
Devotion's visage, 3. 
Dew, ilka blade o' grass keps, 116. 

on the mountain, 208. 
Dewdrop, from the lion's mane, 9. 
Di do dum, 232. 
Dial drew from his poke, 139. 

figures on a, 111, 

true as, to the sun, 116. 
Diamond me no diamonds, 252 (note). 
Diana's foresters, 116. 
Dictynna, goodman Dull, 116. 
Didn't know everything down in 

Judee, 116. 
Die, and go we know not where, 86. 

hazard of, 72. 

in moulding Sheridan, 116. 

in the last ditch, 116. 

let us do or, 116. 

of a rose, 116. 

our honour at height, 116. 

taught us how to, 116. 



Die with harness on, 117. 

who tell us love can, 212. 
Dies and makes no sign, 117. 
Difference to me, 170. 
Digestion, good, wait on appetite, 22. 
Dignity, in every gesture, 117. 
Dim and perilous way, 117. 
eclipse, 117. 
religious light, 117. 
spot, 1. 
Dimidium facti, 43. 
Diminished heads, 181. 
Dine, that jurymen may, 117. 
Dinner-bell, 200. 

Disasters come not singly, 330 (note). 
Dis(ass)sembly appeared, 29. 
Discommend that they cannot amend, 

98. 
Discord, harmony not understood,12. 
Discourse most eloquent music, 117. 
such large, 117. 
voluble, 117. 
Discreetest, best, 117. 
Discretion, better part of valour, 117. 
! Diseases desperate grown, 22. 
Disguises her age, 117. 
Disinheriting countenance, 118. 
Dismissed, civilly, 104. 
Disposer of other men's stuff, 118. 
Dispraised were no small praise, 118. 
Disputation, run in debt, by, 118. 
Dissension between hearts, 118. 

civil, 85. 
Distance lends enchantment, 118. 
Distilled damnation, 118. 
Distrusting, heart, asks, 177. 
Ditch, die in the last, 116. 
Divided duty, 118. 
Dividends, incarnation of fat, 118. 
Divine philosophy, 21. 
to forgive, 118. 
too, to love, 118. 
Divinity doth hedge a king, 118. 
in odd numbers, 118. 
that shapes our ends, 119. 
that stirs within us, 119. 
Division of a battle, 119. 
Do good by stealth, 119. 

ye hear the childrenweeping,H9. 
Doctor, dismissing the, 119. 
Doctors disagree, 72. 



INDEX. 



355 



Doctrine clear, what makes all, 119. 

of chances, 47. 
Dog, and bay the moon, 37, 119. 

his Highness's at Kew, 120. 

it was that died, 119. 

let no, bark, 119. 

like a, hunts in dreams, 119. 

living, better than dead lion, 1 J 9. 

not word to throw at a, 119. 

something better than Ins, 119. 

went mad, 120. 

whose, are you, 120. 

will have his day, 73. 
Dogge called " Love," 120. 
Dogs delight to bark, 120. 

of war, 100. 

the little, and all, 120. 

throw physic to the, 120. 
Doleful dumps, 233. 
Doing or suffering, 229. 
Dome, him of the Western, 120. 

of manv-coloured glass, 120. 

of thought, 120. 
Domestic happiness, 50. 
Dominions, the sun in my, never 

sets, 120. 
Done, if it were, 29. 

quickly, 29. 
Doom, regardless of their, 120. 
Door, sweetest thing beside, 121. 
Dorian mood of flutes, 121. 
Dotage, streams of, 121. 
Dotes, yet doubts, 121. 
Double toil and trouble, 121. 
Doubling his pleasures, 17. 
Doubt, once in, 121. 

honest, 231. 

thou the stars are fire, 121. 
Doubts are traitors, 121. 
Doubtful tap, 46. 
Doughty swain, 278. 
Douglas in his hall, 39. 
Dove, gently as any sucking, 121. 

wings like a, 121. 
Doves, harmless as, 121. 
Dowagers for deans, 265. 
Down, he that is, can fall no lower, 
121. 

he that is, need fear no fall, 1 21. 
Doy, gin I mun doy, 121. 
Drab-coloured men of Pennsylvania, 
121. 



Drachenfels, crag of, 122. 
Drags at each remove, 122. 
Drapery of his couch, 95. 
Draw men as they ought to be, 122. 
Draws veil from hidden worth, 122. 
Dread abode, 57. 
Dreadful reckoning, 35. 
Dream forgotten, 122. 

life but an empty, 122. 

the old men's, 122. 

which was not all a, 122. 
Dreams, books, are each a world, 122. 

full of fearful, 122. 

I talk of, 82. 

old men shall dream, 122. 

pleasing, 122. 
Dreary west, 36. 
Dregs of Paine, 123. 
Drink deep or taste not, 123. 

made wits, 236. 

pretty creature, 123. 

the ocean dry, 123. 

to me only with thine eyes, 100. 
Drinking after death, 123. 
Driving of Jehu, 195. 
Drop a tear, 123. 

into the grave, 204. 

of a bucket, 33. 
Dropping buckets, 65. 
Drops, ruddy, 123. 
Drowned honour, 63. 
Drudgery at the desk, 123. 

divine, 123. 
Drugs of which you know nothing, 

123. 
Druid, in yonder grave lies, 123. 
Drum, beat of the alarming, 327. 

morning, beat, 120 (note). 

the spirit-stirring, 93. 

was heard, 124. 
Drunken man, stagger like a, 124. 
Dry sun, dry wind, 147. 
Dryncke is my lyfe, 123. 
: Dues, render to all their, 124. 
Dukedom, my library was, 124. 
Dulce est desipereinloco, 226 (note). 

pomum quum abest custos, 199 
(note). 
Dull tame shore, 124. 

Boeotian air, 124. 
Dulness ever loves a joke, 124, 



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Dum vivimus vivamus, 229. 
Dumb, on their own merits, 124. 
Dumpy woman, I hate a, 124. 
Duncan, hear it not, 200. 

is in his grave, 6. 
Dunce sent to roam, 124. 

with wits, 124. 
Dundee, single hour of that, 124. 
Dungeon, himself is his own, 181. 
Dupes and victims, 124. 
Durance vile, 124. 
Dusky race, 125. 
Dust, blossom in the, 3. 

from whence he sprung, 321. 

hearts dry as summer, 125. 

his enemies shall lick the, 125. 

heap of, 177. 

learned, 125. 

of the balance, 33. 

return to the earth, 125. 

the knight's bones are, 125. 

thou art, 125. 

to dust, 27. 
Dwarf sees farther than giant, 125. 
Dyer's hand, like the, 125. 
Dying man to dying men, 261. 

Each esteem other, 126. 

particular hair, 126. 
Eager-hearted, 126. 
Eagle mewing her youth, 126. 

so the struck, 126. 
Eagle's fate and mine are one, 126. 
Ear, more is meant than meets the, 126 

word of promise to our, 127. 

wrong sow by the, 127. 
Earnest, all must be, 127. 
Ears, in my ancient, 127. 

itching, 194. 

of the groundlings, 127. 

to hear, let him hear, 127. 

took captive, 127. 

unwilling, 326. 
Earth, air, and ocean, 127. 

but one beloved face on, 127. 

earthy, 127. 

felt the wound, 127. 

first flower of, 127. 

forgot, 128. 

gentle, 27, 127. 

giants in the, 128. 



Earth, growth of mother, 128. 

has no sorrow, 128. 

hath bubbles, 65. 

here is so kind, 128. 

less of, 128. 

lie gently on their bones, 127. 

lie light the, 127. 

more things in heaven and, 128. 

ocean, air, 127. 

proudly wears the Parthenon, 
128. 

put a girdle round the, 128. 

salt of the, 128. 

so much of, 128. 

soaks up the rain, 128. 

some special good give to, 168. 

that lightly covers, 28. 

thou sure and firm-set, 128. 

to earth, 27. 

to smell a turf of fresh, 129. 

truth crushed to, 129. 

way of all the, 129. 

with her thousand voices, 128. 
Earth's noblest ring, 199. 

noblest thing, 129. 
Earthlier happy, 129. 
Earthly hope, 129. 
Ease and alternate labour, 23. 

he did with so much, 129. 

in mine inn, 129. 
East, it is the, 207. 

the purpling, 203. 
Easy as lying, 129. 

writing's cursed hard reading, 
129. 
Eat, drink, and be merry, 129. 
Eaten out of house and home, 129. 
Ebb of time, 309. 
Echo answers, Where? 129. 

applaud thee to very, 22. 
Echoing walks, 130. 
Ecstasjr of love, 130. 
Edge of husbandry, 57. 
Edified, whoe'er was, 130. 
Edom, cometh from, 59. 
Educated, ill, 130. 
Education forms the mind, 130. 

virtuous and noble, 130. 
Eel of science, 130. 
Ef you take a sword an' dror it, 130. 
Egg, the learned roast an, 130. 



INDEX. 



357 



Elder, let the woman take an, 130. 
Elegant sufficiency, 23. 
Elements, dare the, 131. 

so mixed in him, 131. 
Elephants, for want of towns, 130. 
Eliza so stood, SOT. 
Eloquence the soul, 131. 

to woe, 131. 
Eloquent in his malice, 131. 

old man, 131. 
Elves, criticizing-, 131. 
Elvsium, lap it in, 131. 

on earth, 131. 
Embattled armies, 24. 

farmers stood, 131. 
Embers of their former fires, 27. 
Empire, the rod of, 131. 
Employments, how various bis, 131. 

wishing- the worst, 132. 
Empty, the" cockloft is, 177. 
Enamelled stones, 132. 
Encounter of our wits, 132. 
Encourage the others, 132. 
End, make, the sooner, 132. 

must justify the means, 132. 
Ends, divinity that shapes our, 119. 
Endure, then pity, 132. 
Endured, not to be, 132. 
Enemies, naked to mine, 132. 
Enemy, how goes the, 132. 

it" thine, hunger, 87. 

in their mouths, 60. 

thing devised by the, 132. 
En°"iner hoist with his own petard, 

132. 
England, homes of, 178, 183. 

was a wolfish den, 330. 

with all thy faults, 132. 
English undefyled, 132. 
Enjoy bright day, 61. 
Enough is as good as a feast, 133. 
Enskyed and sainted, 133. 
Enterprise, life-blood of, 133. 
Enterprises, impediments to great, 

133. 
Entertained angels unawares, 133. 
Envy is a kind of praise, 133. 

will merit, 133. 

withers at another's joy, 133. 
Ephesian dome, 133. 
Epicurus' sty, 133. 



Epitaph, no man can write my, 133. 

Epitome, all mankind's, 133. 

Equal to all things, 133. 

Ercles' vein, 134. 

Erect, mcrose, 294. 

Err, to, is human, 118. 

Errins; sister's shame, 134. 

twice in love or war, 134. 
Errors, female, 134. 

like straws, 134. 

to our own stronger, blind, 148. 
Eruption, bodes some strange, 134. 
Eruptions, strange, in nature, 134. 
Estate, a calm, 138. 
Eternal home, 82. 

joy, 18. 

smiles, 134. 

summer, 134. 

sunshine, 134. 
Eternities, two, 134. 
Eternity in bondage, 134. 

mourns, 134. 

opes the palace of, 134. 

thoughts that wander through, 
13o. 
Ethereal mould, 150. 
Ethiop gods, 135. 
Ethiopian change his skin, 135. 
Etrurian shades, 135. 
E'en in our ashes, 27. 
Eve, from noon to dewy, 135. 

grandmother, 135. 

the fairest of her daughters, 4. 
Evening bells, 135. 

now came still, 135. 

shades prevail, 135. 
Events, spirits of great, 135. 
Ever charming, ever new, 135. 
Everlasting flint, 136. 

had not fixed, 71. 

love, 18. 
Every conqueror creates a muse, 136. 

inch a king, 136. 

one is as God made him, 136. 

shepherd tells his tale, 136. 

why a wherefore, 136. 

woman a rake, 136. 
i Everything by starts, 133. 

good in, 5. 
: Everywhere his place, 136. 
I Evidence of things not seen, 136. 



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INDEX. 



Evil, be not overcome of, 136. 

be thou my good, 136. 

communications, 136. 

do that good may come, 136. 

is wrought by want of thought, 
136. 

lives after them, 54. 

money the root of all, 136. 

news rides post, 136. 

partial, 12. 

report, and good report, 136. 

still educing good from, 137. 
Evils, less of two, 137. 

of two, 205. 
Excellent thing in woman, 137. 
Excess of glory obscured, 23. 

wasteful, 137. 
Excuse for the glass, 137. 
Execrable shape, 137. 
Execute their aery purposes, 137. 
Exhalation, like an, 137, 229. 
Exile of Erin, 137. 
Exits and their entrances, 304. 
Expectation, better bettered, 137. 

fails, oft, 137. 

makes a blessing dear, 137. 
Experience tells, 138. 

to make me sad, 138. 
Explain a thing till all men doubt,138 . 

the asking eye, 138. 
Exposition of sleep, 138. 
Expressive silence, 138. 
Exquisite and strong, 19. 
Extenuate, nothing, 138. 
Extreme of love, 138. 
Extremely cheap, extremely dear, 

Extremes in nature, 138. 

Eye and prospect of his soul, 138. 

for eye, 138. 

harvest of a quiet, 138. 

in my mind's, 139. 

jaundiced, 139. 

lack-lustre, 139. 

like Mars, 95. 

more peril in thine, 139. 

my great Task-master's, 139. 

negotiate for itself, 139. 

of Greece, 26. 

precious seeing to the, 139, 

pupil of the, 139. 



Eye, speaking, 256. 

sublime, 139. 

twinkling of an, 139. 

the poet's, in a fine frenzy roll- 
ing, 10. 

unforgiving, 118. 

upward glancing of an, 260. 

was in itself a soul, 141. 

white weuch's black, 139. 
Eyes, a man with large gray, 139. 

are homes of prayer, 181. 

history in a nation's, 139. 

look your last, 25. 

looked love, 140. 

light that lies in woman's, 140. 

make pictures, 140. 

no speculation in those, 140. 

now dimmed, 140. 

rain influence, 140. 

sans, 8. 

soul sitting in thine, 140. 

strike mine, 5. 

that shone, 140. 

the glow-worm lend thee, 140. 
Ez fer war, 324. 

Fabric, baseless, of this vision, 10. 

huge, 229. 

mystic, sprung, 245. 
Face,can't I another's, commend, 141. 

finer form, or lovelier, 141. 

in many a solitary place, 141. 

mind's construction in the, 141. 

music breathing from her, 141. 

of joy appear, 141. 

that launched a thousand ships, 
190. 

transmitter of a foolish, 142. 
Faces, old familiar, 81. 

pavement of heads and, 284. 

sea of upturned, 284. 
Facing fearful odds, 27. 
Facts, imagination for his, 142. 
Faculty divine, 142. 

in, how infinite, 3. 
Fade as a leaf, 142. 
Fagoted his notions, 142. 
" Fail," no such word as, 142. 

who die in a great cause, 142. 
Failings leaned to virtue's side, 142. 
Fain would 1 climb, 142. 



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359 



Faint heart ne'er won fair lady, 142. 
Fair is foul, 142. 

is she not passing, 142. 
large front, 139. 
Melrose, 142. 
round belly, 8. 
spoken and persuading, 142. 
tresses, 140. 
Fairestdreams are made of truths, 143. 

of her daughters, 4. 
Fairies' midwife, 6. 
Fairy fiction drest, 143. 
hands, 143. 

winged, demon guides, 298. 
Faith, amaranthine flower of, 143. 
a passionate intuition, 143. 
fanatic faith, 143. 
has centre everywhere, 143. 
herself is half confounded, 143. 
I have kept the, 95. 
in honest doubt, 231. 
in some nice tenets wrong, 143. 
is the substance, 136. 
Milton held, 143. 
of many made for one, 143. 
on whose breast, 229. 
plain and simple, 143. 
we walk by, 143. 
Faithful among the faithless, 143. 

dog shall bear him company, 4. 
Falcon towering in her pride, 144. 
Fall, a dying, 144. 

O what a, was there, 144. 
Falling-off was there, 144. 
Falling with a falling state, 144. 
Falls like Lucifer, 144. 
with the leaf, 144. 
False as dicers' oaths, 144. 
creation, 60. 
philosophy, 144. 
Falsehood, goodly outside, 22. 

under saintly show, 144. 
Fame, blush to find it, 119. 

hard to climb the steep o£, 145, 
is the spur, 145. 
the end of, 145. 
the martyrdom of, 145. 
Familiar, be, not vulgar, 37. 
faces, old, 81. 
friend, mine own, 145. 
in their mouths, 185. 



Familiar spirit, man that hath, 145. 
Familiars watched for my halting, 

145. 
Famous by my sword, 145. 

found myself, 145. 

victory, 145. 
Famoused for fight, 55. 
Fancies, giddy and infirm, 130. 

with thick-coming, 145. 
Fancy, expressed in, 21. 

home-bound, 145. 

like the finger of a clock, 146. 
Fancy's course, impediments in, 146. 

meteor ray, 146. 

rays, 74. 
Fantastic as woman's mood, 146. 

tricks, 18. 
Fantasy, vain, 82. 
Fantasy's hot fire, 228. 
Far as the solar walk, 146. 
Fare thee well, 146. 
Farewell, a long farewell, 53. 

a word that must be, 146. 

farewell to thee, 23. 

happy fields, 146. 

hope, 136. 

that fatal word, 146. 

the tranquil mind, 93. 
Farthing candle to the sun, 89. 
Fascination of a name, 146. 
Fashion, glass of, 147. 

of this world, 147. 
Fashion's brightest arts, 177. 
Fast bind, fast find, 147. 
Fasting, for a good man's love, 147. 
Fat, I will feed, 16. 

oxen, who drives, 147. 

weed, 147. 
Fatal bellman, 147. 
Fate, down the torrent of, 147. 

he either fears his, 147. 
j Father antic the law, 147. 

no one ever knew his, 80 (note). 

no more like my, 147. 

of all, 147. 
Fault, excusing of a, 147. 

seeming monstrous, 148. 
i Faults, be to her, a little blind, ST. 

spy in other men, 148. 

vile, ill-favoured, 148. 
Favourite has no friend, 148. 



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IX VEX. 



Favourite, to "be a prodigal's, 148. 
Fear o' hell, 148. 

perfect love casteth out. 148. 
Fearful odds. 27. 

Fearfully and wonderfully made, 143. 
Fears make us traitors. 148. 

our hopes belied our. 148. 
Feast, bare imagination of, 22. 

enough as good as. 1.33. 

of languages. 148. 

of reason, 59. 

perpetual, 21. 

weight of the, 148. 
Feasting presence, 148. 
Feather, a wit's a, 149. 

to waft a. 149. 
Feathers, fine, 150. 
Feeble, forcible, 149. 
Feelings, great, came unawares, 149. 
Feels at each thread, 149. 
Feet beneath her petticoat, 56 (note), 
149. 

like snails, 56. 

standing with reluctant, 271. 

to the foe, 32. 

to the lame, 50. 
Felix opportunitate mortis, 116. 
Fell, bv that sin, 16. 

Dr., 188. 
Fellow-feeling makes us kind, 149. 
Fellow of infinite jest, 149. 

that hath had losses, 149. 

with the best king. 149. 
Ferdinand 3Iendez Pinto, 149. 
Few are chosen, 149. 

in the extreme, 149. 

know their own good. 149. 
Few, very, to love. 16. 
Fiction, truth stranger than, 150. 
Fie, toll, and funi, 150. 
Field, lilies of the, 150. 

tented. 314. 
Fife, squeaking of wry-necked, 150. 

the ear-piercing, 93. 
Fig for care, 109. 
Fight, fought a good, 95. 
Fights and runs away. 150. 
Fio'-tree, man under his, 220. 
Figure for the time, for scorn. 150. 
Filthy lucre, loO. 
Final hope is flat despair, 150. 



Fine by defect, 150. 

by degrees. 40. 

feathers make rlne birds, 150. 

madness. 150. 
Fire answers fire, 25. 

branded foxes. 166. 

burned while musing 151. 

great matter kindleth little, 151. 

in each eye, 215. 

three removes bad as, 150. 

uneffectual, 1.51. 
Fires of ruin. 151. 
Firmament, brave overhanging, 151. 

spacious, 151. 
{ First and the last. 14. 

true gentleman. 46. 
Fish, it's no. ye're buying, 208. 
Fit's upon me now, 151. 
Fits, 'twas sad by, 151. 
Fix'd like a plant. 151. 
Flag has braved a thousand years. 36. 
Flame, adding fuel to the. 151. 
Flanders received our yoke, 151. 
Flashes of merriment, 151. 
Flat burglary, 67. 
Flatterers, besieged by, 151. 

he hates, 152. 
Flattering unction, 152. 
Flattery lost on poet's ear, 152. 
Flea, naturalists observe. 130. 

valiant. 61. 
Fleas are not lobsters. 152. 

on their backs to bite 'em, 130. 
Fleetest, brightest still the. 12. 
Fleeting good. 152. 
Flesh, all. is grass. 152. 

and blood can't bear it. 152. 

how art thou fishified. 152. 

is weak, spirit willing, 152. 

take off my. 312. 

will quiver. 152. 
Flies of estates, 152. 
flight of future days, 152. 
Fling but a stone. 152. 
Flint, everlasting, 136. 

snore upon the, 152. 
Floods, bathe in fiery, 86. 
Flow of soul. 59. 
Flower, crimson-tipped, 325. 

man a, 153. 
Flowing cups, 153, 311. 






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361 



Flowing eyes to stream, 59. 
Flown with insolence, 44. 
Flunkey, what Scotch call, 153. 
Flutes, and soft recorders, 121. 
Fly not yet, 153. 

those that, 153, 176. 
Foam on the river, 208. 
Foe, the, they come ! 327. 

unrelenting*, to love, 153. 
Foemen worthy of their steel, 153. 
Foiled after a thousand victories, 55. 
Folly as it flies, 153. 

grow romantic, 76. 

into sin, 154. 

to be wise, 154. 

woman stoops to, 154. 
Folly's all they've taught me, 56. 

at full length, 153. 
Fontarabian echoes, 154. 
Food for powder, 154. 

pined and wanted, 154. 
Fool at forty, 37. 

at thirty, 154. 

creature smarts so little as, 97. 

every inch that is not, 154. 

hath said in his heart, 154. 

me to top of bent, 45. 

now and then right, 154. 

with judges, 154. 
Fools admire, 154. 

fame of loyalty divide, 180. 

for arguments use wagers, 154. 

great rule the less, 155. 

in idle wishes, 154. 

make a mock at sin, 155. 

make feasts, 155. 

paradise of, 155. 

rush in, 155. 

that do not know how much 
more the half is than the whole, 
155. 

they are who roam, 155. 

to suckle, 43. 

who came to scoff, 155. 
Fools' Paradise, 155. 
Foot has music in 't, 155. 

more light, 155. 

of Time, noiseless falls, 155. 

so light, 136. 
Footprints on the sands of time, 156. 
Fop, solemn, 154. 



Forbear to judge, 156. 
Forbearance ceases to be a virtue, 156. 
Force, who overcomes by, 156. 
Fordoes, or makes me, 156. 
Forefinger of all time, 156. 
Forehead, villainous low, 156. 
Foreign hands thy dying eyes closed, 

67. 
Foremost files of time, 8. 

man, 156. 
Forgetfulness,steep my senses in,156. 

sweets of, 86. 
Forgiveness to the injured does be- 
long, 156. 
Forked radish, 156. 
Form and moving, in how, 3. 
Fortune and fame, unknown to, 58. 

gift of, to be well-favoured, 
156. 

gives too much to many, 156. 

leads on to, 157. 

railed on lady, 157. 

unrelenting foe to love, 153. 

with threatening eye, 157. 
Fortune's buffets, 157. 

cap, 67. 

champion, 96. 

ice prefers, 15. 
Fortunes, pride fell with my, 157. 
Forty-parson power, 157. 
Forty pounds a year, 157. 
Fountain of immortal drink, 157. 

troubled, 157. 
Fowl, tame villatic, 157. 
Fox barks not, 35. 
Foxes have holes, 157. 

that spoil the vines, 157. 
Fragments, gather up the, 157. 
Frailty, thy name is woman, 157. 
Framed to make women false, 157. 
France, order this better in, 157. 
Frankfort, I went to, 189. 
Free as nature first made man, 158. 
Freedom has a thousand charms, 158. 

shriek'd as Kosciusko fell, 158. 
Freedom's battle, 27. 
Free-livers on a small scale, 158. 
Freeman whom truth makes free, 158. 
Frenchman, brilliant, 158. 
Frenchman's darling, 158. 
Frensy, the poet's eye in fine, 10. 



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INDEX. 



Fresh woods and pastures, 158. 
Fretted with golden fire, 151. 
Friend after friend departs, 158. 

house to lodge a, 158. 

mine own familiar, 145. 

of every country but his own, 
249. 

save me from the candid, 112 
(note), 158. 

sticketh closer than a, 158. 

very much his, 32. 
Friend's infirmities, 159. 
Friends, defend me from my, 112. 

her dear five hundred, 159. 

not enter on my list of, 159. 

of human kind, 159. 

of my youth, 129. 

three firm, 159. 
Friendship hut a name, 159. 

cement of the soul, 159. 

ne'er knew joy but, 159. 
Frights the isle, 44. 
Frog, thus use your, 159. 
Frolics, a youth of, 7. 
From Greenland's icy mountains, 6. 
Front o' battle lour, 160. 

of Jove, 95. 
Frost, killing, 53. 
Frosty but kindly, 7. 
Frown at pleasure, 160. 
Frowzy couch, 124. 
Fruges consumere nati, 56 (note). 
Fruit, of sense, 160. 

of that forbidden tree, 160. 

the ripest, first falls, 160. 

tree known by his, 160. 
Full many a flower, 57. 

many a gem, 57. 

resounding line, 160. 
Fun grew fast and furious, 160. 
Funeral baked meats, 160. 
Funning, cease your, 160. 
Furnace, sighing like a, 8. 
Fury, comes the blind, 145. 

filled with, 160. 

of a patient man, 160. 

Gae woo anither, 161. 

Gaffer Gray, 170, 328. 

Gain, to live is Christ, to die, 161. 

Gained from Heaven a friend, 58. 



Galileo with his woes, 161. 
Gall enough in thy ink, 161. 
Galled jade, 161. 
Gallery critics, 161. 
Galligaskins long withstood, 161. 
Gander, sauce for a, 283. 
Garden and greenhouse too, 161. 
Garish sun, 161. 
Garland and singing robes, 162. 
Garter, host of the, 162. 
Gath, tell it not in, 28. 
Gather ye rosebuds, 162. 
Gathered every vice, 162. 
Gatherer of other men's stuff, 118. 
Gave to misery all he had, 58. 
Gay Lothario, 162. 
Gazelle, a dear, 162. 
Gazette of my own, 162. 
Gem of purest ray, 57. 
Genius which can perish, 162. 
Gentle hand was at the latch, 162. 

peace carry, 13. 

thoughts, 162. 
Gentleman and scholar, 162. 

God Almighty's, 83, 162, 165. 

grand old name of, 169. 

of nature, 162. 

the Prince of Darkness is a, 162. 

who was then the, 4. 
Gentlemen of the shade, 116. 

whose chariots, 2. 

who wrote with ease, 163. 
Gently scan your brother, 163. 
George, if his name be, 163. 

the Third was king, when, 334. 
Gesture, in every, dignity, 117. 
Get money, boy, 163. 

place and wealth, 163. 

thee behind me, 163. 
Ghost, an ill-used, 19. 

there needs no, 163. 

vex not his, 163. 
Giant dies, 22, 152. 

dwarf sees farther than, 125. 
Giant's strength, excellent, 163. 
Gift horse in the mouth, 163. 
Gigmen, 273 (note). 
Gilded masks, 163. 
Gilead, balm in, 34. 
Gilpin, long live he, 163. 
Gin fetch price of champagne, 163. 



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363 



Ginger-hot i" the mouth, 69. 
Girl-graduates, sweet, 264. 
Give it an understanding, 164. 

me a look, 5. 

me but what this ribbon bound, 
89, 164. 

neither poverty nor riches, 164. 

sorrow words, 164. 

thy thoughts no tongue, 164. 
Glare, maidens caught by, 164. 
Glass, darkly through a, 164. 

wherein the noble youth, 164. 
Glassy essence, 18. 
Glastonbury thorn, 52. 
Glistering grief, 46. 
Gloomy habit of my soul, 164. 
Glories like glowworms, 164. 
Glory dies not, 164. 

in deathless, 62. 

is their shame, 45. 

of deed shall remain, 164. 

or the grave, 60. 

the paths of, 164. 

track the steps of, 164. 

trailing clouds of, 164. 

waits, 165. 
Glove, supple as your, 272. 

upon that hand, 78. 
Glowworm shows matin near, 151. 
Go and do thou likewise, 165. 

his halves, 165. 

soul, the body's guest, 165. 

where glory waits thee, 165. 
God, a, all mercy, 165. 

Almighty's gentleman, 83, 162, 
165. 

and Mammon, 166. 

end to all things, 166. 

first garden made, 69. 

gives wind to measure, 166 (n.) 

helps them that help them- 
selves, 165. 

how like a, 3. 

is their belly, 45. 

just are the ways of, 165. 

made the country. 69 (note), 165. 

moves in a mysterious way, 165. 

of my idolatry, 166. 

of storms, 281. 

or devil, 166. 

save the king, 165. 



j God save him, 166. 

sendeth and giveth, 166. 

send thee good ale, 32. 

takes a text, 248. 

tempers the wind, 166. 

the varied, 13. 
God-given strength, 166. 
; God's first temples, 172. 

image, 55. 

prophets of the beautiful, 166. 

providence estranged, 166. 
Gods, how he will talk, 166. 
Godiva, 333. 

Gold all is not, that doth golden 
seem, 166. 

all that glitters is not, 166. 

and ripe-ear'd hopes, 166. 

bright and yellow, 166. 

gild refined, 137. 
Golden bowl, 59. 

locks, 167. 

mean, 167. 

opinions, 166. 

sand, 6. 

sorrow, 46. 
Gone and for ever, 208. 
Good as she was fair, 167. 

better made by ill, 167. 

deed in naughty world, 70. 

die first, 125. 

diffused abundant grow, 168. 

final goal of ill, 334. 

fleeting, 152. 

great man, 159. 

humour and white bigonets, 173. 

in everything, 5. 

it hath, perchance much bad, 
and more indifferent, 167. 

luxury of doing, 167. 

man never dies, 62. 

man's sin, 17. 

men and true, 168. 

men great, 334. 

name better than ointment, 168. 

name in man, 168. 

night, and joy be wi' ye a', 167. 

night, my native land, 234. 

night, to each a fair, 122. 

old age, 167. 

old rule, 168. 

Samaritan, 167. 



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Good sense, gift of Heaven, 168. 

special, 168. 

sword rust, 125. 

time coming, 167. 

the gods provide thee, 168. 

the more communicated, 168. 

universal, 12. 
Goodly sight to see, 168. 
Goodness in tilings evil, 168. 

lead him not, 168. 

never fearful, 168. 
Gorgeous palaces, 10. 
Gorgons and hydras, 82. 
Gory locks, 16*8. 
Gospel light first beamed from Bul- 

len's eyes, 169. 
Government founded on compro- 
mise, 169. 
Grace beyond reach of art, 26. 

makes simplicity a, 5. 

sweet attractive, 93. 

the melody of every, 169. 

the power of, 169. 

was in all her steps, 117. 
Grandam, soul of our, 169. 
Grand old name of gentleman, 169. 
Grandsire, gay, 11. 

phrase, 169. 
Grapes, the fathers have eaten sour, 

169. 
Grass, ilka blade o', 116. 
Grasshopper, shall he burden, 67. 
Gratitude, still small voice of, 169. 
Grave, au doux, 170 (note). 

dread thing, 169. 

Duncan is in his, 6. 

earliest at his, 21. 

Lucy is in her, 170. 

man, 170. 

to light, 170 (note). 

thou art gone to the, 170. 

to gay, 170. 

where is thy victory. 110, 170. 

where Laura lay, 169. 

with sorrow to the, 170. 
Graves, green, of your sires, 15. 

stood tenantless, 170. 
Gray mare the better horse, 170. 

Gaffer, 170. 
Great Csesar fell, 144. 

eye of heaven, 17. 



Great important day, 47. 

is truth, 171. 

men good, 334. 

none think unhappy, but, 171. 

some are born, 171. 

vulgar, 171. 

wits jump, 171. 
Greatest °;ood to greatest number, 
171. 

happiness to greatest number, 
171. 

men, world knows nothing of, 
224. 
Greatness and goodness, 159. 
Grecian gods, 135. 
Greece, isles of, 171. 

living Greece, 87. 

might still be free, 250. 
Greed of filthy lucre, 150. 
Greek, above all, 1. 

small Latin and less, 171. 

to me, it was, 171. 

when Greeks joined, 171. 
Green above the red, 171. 

bay tree, 172. 

be the turf, 171. 

graves of your sires, 15. 

pastures, 172. 
Greenland's icy mountains, 6. 
Green-robed senators, 172, 287. 
Greetings where no kindness is, 172. 
Greyhounds in the slips, 172. 
Grief, every one can master a, 172. 

first days of my distracting, 172. 

to remember days of joy, 172. 
Griefs, some, are med'cinable, 172. 
Grim-visaged war, 172. 
Grind the faces of the poor, 172. 
Griping grief, 233. 
Groans of the dying, 57. 
Grot, cool, and mossy cell, 94. 
Ground, haunted holy, 172. 
Grounds of fate in grounds of tea, 172. 
Groves, God's first temples, 172. 
Grow double, 56. 

wiser and better, 172. 
Grow'd, 'spect I, 172. 
Growing old in drawing nothing 

up, 65. 
Growth, grows with his, 172. 
Grundy, what will Mis., say, 173. 



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365 



Guards to my face, to keep his love 

for me, 173. 
Gude time coming-, 173. 
Guest, speed the going, 173. 

speed the parting, 173. 

troublous, 212. 
Guide, philosopher, and friend, 173. 
Guilt to cover, 26. 
Guinea helps the hurt, 173. 
Gull, arrant, 25. 
Gusty thieves, 55. 
Gypsies stealing children, 173. 

Habit, costly as thy purse, 21. 

use doth breed, 174. 
Hail, horrors, hail, 146. 

to the chief, 174. 

wedded love, 174. 
Hair, distinguish and divide, 174. 

each particular, 126. 
Hair-breadth 'scapes, 2. 
Hairs of your head numbered, 174. 
Half-drunk and half-dressed, 174. 
Half our knowledge we must snatch, 
174. 

seas o'er in death, 174. 
Halter draw, 174. 

Hamlet, rude forefathers of the, 279. 
Hammers closing rivets up, 25, 85. 
Hampden, some village, 298. 
Hand against every man, 174. 

findeth to do, do it, 175. 

hardened with toil, 174. 
Hands, folding of the, 175. 

promiscuously applied, 175. 

warmed before fire of life, 307. 
Happiness, our being's end, 105. 

that makes the heart afraid, 175. 

through another's eyes, 175. 

virtue alone is, 175. 

was born a twin, 175. 
Happy chance, 35. 

soul, 299. 

the golden mean, 167. 
Harmony, discord not understood, 12. 

hidden soul of, 175. 

of the universe, 3. 
Harness, girdeth on his, 175. 

on our back, 117. 
Harp of thousand string's, 175. 

on Tara's walls, 157. 



Harping on my daughter, 106. 
Harps upon the willows, 175. 
Harvest of a quiet eye, 138. 

time of love, 212. 

truly is plenteous, 175. 
Hasten to be drunk, 25. 
Hat not the worse for wear, 175. 
Hate a little longer, 175. 

in the extreme, 175. 
Hated needs but to be seen, 132. 

with a hate, 176. 
Hater, a good, 176. 
Hatred, love turned to, 176. 
Having nothing, yet hath all, 181. 
Hawk from a handsaw, 176. 
Hawthorn bush with seats, 7. 

in the dale, 136. 
He left a name, 5. 

loved his friends, 3. 

that is not with me, 176. 

that fights, 176. 

that runs may read, 176. 

that will not when he may, 176. 

who allows oppression, 176. 

who fights, 150. 
Head and front of my offending, 177. 

a useful lesson to the, 56. 

comely, 177. 

hairs of your, 174. 

in his, wears a precious jewel, 5, 

is not more native to heart, 176. 

lodgings in a, 177. 

native to the heart, 176. 

off with his, 242. 

one small, 24. 

repairs his drooping, 107. 

the hoary, 99. 

to be let unfurnished, 177. 

uneasy lies the, 99. 
Heads, hide their diminished, 181. 

houseless, 250. 
Head's sometimes so little, 177. 
Heady, highminded, 177. 
Health on both, 22. 
Heap coals of fire, 87. 

of dust, 177. 
Heard melodies, 302. 
Hear it not, Duncan, 200. 
Hearse, this sable, 106. 
: Heart, abundance of the, 2. 
| Heart-ache, to say we end the, 38. 



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Heart and lute, 189. 

awake to flowers, 177. 

can ne'er a transport, 50. 

did break, 210. 

distrusting asks, 177. 

felt along the, 51. 

give useful lesson to head, 56. 

heart of, 254. 

in my hand, 177. 

is a small thing, 178. 

knock against my ribs, 285. 

knoweth bis own bitterness, 177. 

let not your, be troubled, 177. 

man after his own, 217. 

merry, goes all the day, 177. 

more native to the, 176. 

music in my, 233. 

naked human, 235. 

Nature's, 178. 

never melt into his, 294. 

of a maiden, 178. 

of a man depressed, 178. 

of existence like boy's, 59. 

of heart, 254. 

of native proof, 178. 

on and up, 178. 

on her lips, 300. 

ruddy drops of my sad, 123. 

sick by hope deferred, 178. 

sole daughter of my, 4. 

soonest awake to flowers, 206. 

tale to many a feeling, 178. 

that truly loved, 309. 

that watches and receives, 324. 

the o'erfraught, 164. 

throbs, count time by, 111. 

through comfortlesse dispaires, 
72. 

upon my sleeve, 106. 

which others bleed for, 178. 

would fain deny, 101. 
Hearth, cricket on the, 98. 
Heart's core, 254. 
Hearts are not flint, 178. 

beat happily, 140. 

dry as summer dust, 125. 

in love use their own tongues, 
139. 

lie withered, 178. 

live in, 178. 

of native proof, 178. 



Hearts, steal away your, 301. 

that human, endure, 101. 

to live in, 178. 
Heaven all tranquillity, 118. 

before high, 18. 

beholding, 178. 

blessed part to, 249. 

but tries our virtue, 6. 

commences, 272. 

directed, 179. 

drowsy, 179. 

fair and open face of, 209. 

first taught letters, 179. 

floor of, 79. 

further off, 189. 

gentle rain from, 268. 

God alone to be seen in, 71. 

great eye of, 17. 

had made her such a man, 248. 

hath a summer's day, 299. 

holding shrine, 179. 

in her eye, 117. 

invites, 110. 

is love, 211. 

is not always angry, 19. 

kindred points of, 179. 

lies about us, 164. 

mountains kiss high, 232. 

nothing true but, 291. 

of hell, 227. 

points out an hereafter, 119. 

reward, 179. 

sail for, with blasts from hell,336. 

sends us good meat, 115. 

smells to, 297. 

so much of, 128. 

spires point to, 292. 

steep and thorny way to, 104. 

to be young was, 51. 

were not heaven, 137. 

winds of, 179. 
Heavenly blessings, 17. 

days, 107. 

eloquence, 120. 

home, 179. 

hope, 129. 
Heaven's chancery, 17. 

hand, argue not against, 24. 
Heavens blaze forth the death of 
princes, 43. 

hung be the, 179. 



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367 



Heaviest battalions, 179. 
Hebrew, in the dying light, 180. 

noun means " I am," 187. 
Hecuba, what's, to him, 326. 
Heed lest he fall, 180. 
Heel of the courtier, 7. 
Heir of all the ages, 8. 
Heirs unknown, 179. 
Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt, 10. 
Hell, better to reign in, 15. 

breathes contagion, 84. 

broke loose, 180. 

characters of, 16. 

feeling, 178. 

full of goodmeanings,193 (note). 

hath no fury like a woman 
scorned, 176. 

I suffer seems a heaven, 111. 

is paved with good intentions, 
193. 

it is in suing long to bide, 72. 

making earth a, 180. 

no limits, 180. 

of waters, 180. 

riches grow in, 261. 

the fear of, 148. 

to ears polite, 101. 
Hell's concave, 75. 
Henpecked you all, 180. 
Hercules, than I to, 147. 
Her eyes are homes, 181. 
Herd of vulgar men, 323. 
Here lies our sovereign, 181. 
Here nor there, 237. 
Hereditary bondsmen, 52. 
Here's to the maiden, 137. 
Heritage of woe, 181. 
Hermit, man the, 220. 
Hero, conquering, comes, 286. 

perish or sparrow fall, 301. 

to his valet, 181. 
Hero-worship, 181. 
Herod, out-Herods, 243. 
Heroes are much the same, 181. 
Heroically mad, 181. 
Hexameter, in the, rises fountain's 

silvery column, 251. 
Heyday in the blood, 181. 
Hidden soul of harmony, 175. 
Hide their diminished heads, 181. 
Hides a dark soul, 18:1. 



High life, characters drawn from, 76. 

on a throne, 33. 

overarched, 130, 135. 

thoughts, 182. 
Highlandman, breeks off, 51. 
Highly, what thou wouldst, 182. 
Highth of this great argument, 105. 
Hill, a cot beside the, 94. 
Hills, heart beats strong amid the,178 

o'er the, and far away, 242. 

peep o'er hills, 14. 
Him like a vera brither, 65. 
Hind mated by the lion, 182. 
Hinges, pregnant, of the knee, 70. 
Hint, upon this, I spake, 105. 
Hip, I have you on the, 182. 
His actions speak, 3. 

faithful dog, 4. 
Histories make men wise, 181. 
History in a nation's eyes, 139. 

is philosophy teaching by ex- 
amples, 253. 

this strange, eventful, 8. 
Hit, a very palpable, 245. 
Hitches in a rhyme, 66. 
Hitherto shalt thou come, 264. 
Hoard of maxims preaching, 222. 
Hoarse rough verse, 11. 
Hobson's choice, 182. 
Hog in Epicurus' sty, 133. 
Hold high converse, 182. 
Hole, Caesar might stop a, 68. 

in a' your coats, 79. 
Holiday-rejoicing spirit, 182. 
Holily, that thou wouldst, 182. 
Hollow^ oak our palace is, 285. 
Holy fields, over whose acres, 2. 

ground, 182. 

haunted ground, 172. 

text, she strews a, 280. 

writ, stolen out of, 235. 
Homage vice pays to virtue, 182. 
Home, eternal, 82. 

I love, 183. 

is home, 182. 

is on the deep, 64. 

is still home, 183. 

man goeth to his long, 218. 

no place like, 182. 

of the brave, 34. 

one's own is best, 183. 



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Home to men's bosoms, 57. 
Home-bound fancy, 145. 
Home -keeping* youth, 183. 
Homeless near a thousand homes,154. 
Homer, all the books you need, 269. 
Homes, near a thousand, 154. 

of England, 178, 183. 

of silent prayer, 181. 
Honest and true, gude to be, 211. 

and true, 226. 

knaves, 327. 

man's aboon his might, 262. 

man, gentleman of nature, 162. 

man's the noblest work, 149. 

men and bonnie lasses, 31. 

tale speeds best, 183. 
Honesty, armed so strong* in, 183. 

is best policy, 183. 
Honour, all is lost save, 210. 

and shame, 3. 

a word, 183. 

book of, 55. 

but an empty bubble, 237. 

Falstaff's catechism on, 183. 

grip, feel your, 148. 

hath no skill in surgery, 183. 

is a mere 'scutcheon, 183. 

jealous in, 8. 

loved I not, more, 183. 

love, obedience, 101. 

new-made, 163. 

pricks me on, 183. 

razed from the book of, 55. 

the post of, 259. 

to pluck bright, 63. 
Honourable men, 65. 
Honour'd, fair and kind, 184. 

how, 177. 
Honours thick upon him, 53. 
Hood, an ass in purple, 184. 
Hook or crook, 184. 
Hoops of steel, 37. 
Hope, abandon, all ye, 184. 

and Chance, adieu, 256. 

deferred, 177. 

farewell, 136. 

fleeting as 'tis fair, 129. 

for a season bade the world fare- 
well, 158. 

heavenly, is all serene, 129. 

is brightest, 278. 



Hope, light of, 19. 

never comes, 249. 

no other medicine but, 223. 

nurse of young desire, 184. 

springs eternal, 50. 

tender leaves of, 53. 

true, is swift, 184. 

while there is life, 184. 

withering* fled, 225. 
Hopes belied our fears, 148. 

like tow'ring* falcons, 184. 

my fondest, decay, 81. 
Horatio, thou art as just a man, 184. 
Horatius kept the bridge, 184. 
Horn, blast of that dread, 154. 
Horrible imaginings, 261. 
Horror's head, 185. 
Horrors, supped full with, 310. 
Horse, dearer than his, Id 9. 

gray mare the better, 170. 
Horse-leach hath two daughters, 185. 

my kingdom for a, 234. 
Horsemanship, witch the world 

with, 185. 
Hospitable thoughts intent, 114. 
Hostages to fortune, 133. 
Hour of glorious life, 8. 

of lovers' vows, 238. 

of virtuous liberty, 134. 

one self-approving, 23. 

pensioner of an, 185. 

some wee short, 185. 

the transient, 153. 

the wonder of an, 312. 
Hour's talk withal, 229. 
Hours I once enjoyed, 2. 

knell of my departed, 185. 

slide away sad, 296. 

sport away the, 127. 

unheeded flew, 155. 

wise to talk with past, 185. 
House and home, eaten out of, 129. 

daughters of my father's, 106. 

of feasting, 185. 

prop that doth sustain my, 185. 

sole daughter of my, 4. 

to be letTfor life, 299. 

to lodge a friend, 158. 

you take my, 185. 
Household words, 185. 
Houseless heads, 250. 



INDEX. 



369 



Houses, a plague o' both jour, 255. 

seem asleep, 28. 
Housewife that's thrifty, 137. 
How are the mighty fallen, 36. 

blessings brighten, 50. 

charming is divine philosophy, 21 

fading are the joys, 19. 

fleet is a glance, 227. 

happy is he born, 25. 

happy with either, 76. 

hard their lot, 185. 

loved, how honoured, 177. 

noble in reason, 3. 

not to do it, 185. 

sleep the brave, 60. 

small of all that human hearts 
endure, 101. 

the world wags, 139. 

we apples swim, 186. 
Howards, the blood of all the, 51. 
Hugged the offender, 288. 
Hum of either army sounds, 25. 

of human cities, 187 (note). 

of mighty workings, 186. 
Human creatures' lives, 208. 

face divine, 106. 

race forget, 113. 

softness, 230. 

soul take wing, 299. 

to err is, 118. 

to step aside is, 163. 
Humanities of old religion, 103. 
Humanity, imitated, 236. 

sad music of, 233. 

suffering sad, 229. 

wearisome, 186. 
Humble port, L 259. 
Humility, modest stillness and, 49. 

pride that apes, 105. 
Humour of it, 186. 

wit, and honesty, 185. 
Hung be the heavens, 179. 
Hungry as the grave, 99. 
Hunt for a forgotten dream, 122. 
Hunter and the deer a shade, 288. 
Hunting which devil designed, 115. 
Hunts in dreams, 119. 
Hurt that honour feels, 173. 
Husband cools, never answers till 
her, 279. 

truant, 186. 



Hut, love in a, 210. 
Hyacinthine locks, 139. 
Hyperion to a satyr, 179. 
Hyperion's curls, 95. 
Hypocrisy homage vice pays to 
virtue, 182. 

I am his Highness's dog, 120. 

I am a part of all I met, 187. 

I am not only witty, 187. 

I am,Hebrew noun which means, 187. 

I am Sir Oracle, 119. 

I ask not proud philosophy, 187. 

I can call spirits, 111. 

I cannot eat but little meat, 187. 

I care for nobody, 187. 

Icouldnot love thee,dear,so much, 183 

1 dare do all, 188. 

I'd be a butterfly, 188. 

" I dare not" wait upon, 72. 

I do not love thee, Dr. Fell, 188. 

I give thee all, 189. 

1 give thee sixpence, 188. 

I hear a voice, 189. 

I know a bank, 3-1. 

I know not, I ask not, 190. 

T must be cruel, 99. 

I on my journey, 189. 

I owe you one, 189. 

I remember, I remember, 189. 

I see a hand, 189. 

I smell a rat, 189. 

I speak of Africa and golden joys, 6. 

I was all ear, 110. 

I went to Frankfort, 189. 

Ice, be thou chaste as, 69. 

fortune's, prefers, 15. 

in June, 92. 

region of thick-ribbed, 86. 
Idea of her life, 190. 

teach the young, 112. 
Ides of March, 190. 
Idiot, tale told by an, 70. 
Idle as a painted ship, 190. 
Idler is a watch, 190. 
Idly throw it by, 42. 
Idolatry, god of my, 166. 
If all the world were youngr. 190. 
If is the only peace-maker, 19J. 
Ignorance, active, 190. 

blind and naked, 190. 



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INDEX. 



Ignorance burst in, 67. 
is bliss, 153. 

mother of your devotion, 116. 
of wealth, 190. 
Ignorant of foreign languages, 190, 
Ilion like a mist, 229. 
Ilium, topmost towers of, 190. 
Ill blows the wind, 190. 
fares the land, 61. 
final goal of, 334. 
fortune known, 327. 
ware is never cheap, 190. 
wind that turns none to good, 190 
Ill-educated, people, 130. 
Ill-favoured thing, 191. 
Ill-used ghost, 19. 
Ills, bear those we have, 54. 
of life victorious, 191. 
prey to hastening, 61. 
the scholar's life assail, 191. 
Illumine, what in me is dark, 105. 
Illustrious predecessor, 191. 
I'll make thee famous, 145. 
Image cut in ebony, 191. 
of God in ebony, 191. 
of good Queen Bess, 191. 
Imagination all compact, 191. 
bodies forth, 10. 
can, boast hues like nature, 191. 
for his facts, 142. 
study of, 190. 
sweeten my, 84. 
Imaginings, horrible, 261. 
Immemorial elms, 43. 
Imminent deadly breach, 2. 
Immodest words, 110. 
Immortal as they quote, 284. 
names, 191. 
with a kiss, 190. 
Immortality, 191. 

and joy, quaff, 89. 
Immortals never appear alone, 191. 
Imparadised in one another's arms, 

191. 
Impeachment, the soft, 297. 
Impediment, marched without, 59. 
Impediments togreat enterprises,133. 

in fancy's course, 146. 
Imperfections on my head, 192. 
Imperious Caesar dead, 68. 
Imperial ensign, 192. 
theme, 263. 



Impious men bear sway, 259. 

to be sad, 192. 
Importune, too proud to, 63. 
Impossible she, 192. 

what's, can't be, 192. 
Impudence, good men starve for, 192. 
Impulse from a vernal wood, 192. 
In perfect phalanx, 121. 
spite of nature, 302. 
the hope to meet shortly, 1. 
Inactivity, masterly, 192. 
Inaudible foot of Time, 155. 
Incapable of stain, 150. 
Incarnadine, seas, 285. 
Incarnation of fat dividends, 118. 
Increase of appetite, 22. 

God gave the, 21. 
Indemnity for the past, 192. 
Independence, let me share, 294. 
Index-learning, 130. 
India's coral strand, 6. 
Indian in another life, 192. 

like the base, 250. 
Indus to the Pole, 258. 
Inebriate, cheer but not, 88. 
Infancy, Heaven about us in, 161. 
Infant crying in the night, 280. 
Infinite deal of nothing, 74. 
in faculty, 3. 
jest, 149. 
variety, 7. 
Infirm of purpose, 266. 
Infirmities, a friend should bear, 159. 
Infirmity of noble mind, 145. 
Influences, servile to all the skyey, 

287. 
Ingratitude, unkind as man's, 52. 
Ingredient is a devil, 192. 
Inhumanity to man, 192. 
Iniquity seeks out companions, 192. 
Ink, gall enough in thy, 161. 

small drop of, 193. 
Inner vileness, 36. 
Inn, take mine ease in, 129. 

warmest welcome at an, 193. 
Innocence and mirth, 193. 

a child, 293. 
Innocent sleep, 34. 
keep me, 198. 
Inordinate cup, 192. 
Insane root, 271 . 
Insatiate archer, 23. 



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371 



Insides carrying three, 113. 
Insolence of office, 53. 
Instances, modern, and wise saws, 8. 
Instinct with music, 300. 
Instruments to plague us, 193. 
Insubstantial pageant, 10. 
Insults unavenged, 193. 
Intellectual power, 117. 

kingdom, 193. 
Intentions, hell paved with good, 193. 
Intercourse from soul to soul, 258. 
Intolerable, not to be endured, 193. 
Intoxication, best of life is, 193. 
Inveni portum, 256. 
Inventor, plague the, 52. 
Inviolate sea. 64, 90. 
Invisible spirit of wine, 193. 
Inward eve, 51. 

self-disparagement, 302. 
Inwardly digest, 269. 
Iron bars a cage, 69. 

entered into his soul, 193. 

meddles with cold, 193. 

tears down Pluto's cheek, 78. 

with a rod of, 277. 
Isles, ships that sailed for sunny, 310. 
Issue, large coarse. 125. 
Isthmus 'twixt two seas, 134. 
Itching palm, 194. 

ears, 194. 
Iteration, damnable, 104. 
Ithuriel, with his spear, 194. 
I've lost a day, 106. 
Ixion's wheel, stayed, 305. 

Jack and Gill. 195. 

shall pipe, 195. 
Jack-slave, 45. 
Jade, let the galled, 161. 
Jail, the patron and the, 191. 
Janus, two-headed, 235. 
Jar and fret, 195. 
Jaws of darkness, 63. 

of vacant darkness, 195. 
Jealous heart. 18. 
Jealousy, artless, 26, 

beware of, 230. 

green-eyed monster, 230. 
Jehovah, Jove, or Lord, 147. 
Jehu, like the driving of, 195. 
Jerusalem, if I forget thee, 100. 
Jesses my heart-strings, 261. 



Jest and riddle of the world, 75. 

and youthful jollity, 267. 

be laughable, 237/ 

his whole wit in a, 225. 

scornful, 48. 
Jest's prosperity, 264. 
Jests indebted to his memory, 142. 
Jew, an Ebrew, 195. 

hath not a, eyes. 195. 

I thank thee,' 195. 

that Shakespeare drew, 195. 
Jewel, a precious, in his head, 5. 

in an Ethiop's ear, 78. 

of their souls, 168. 
Jewels five-words-long, 156. 

unclasps her warmed, 321. 
, Jews might kiss and infidels adore, 99. 

Jocund day, 106. 
! John, print it, some said, 298. 
i Joint, the time is out of, 195. 
I Joke, dulness ever loves a, 124. 
Jollitv, tipsy dance and, 273. 
Jolly "Muse "it is, 195. 

place in times of old, 255. 
'■ Jonson's learned sock, 324. 
j Jot, nor bate a, 24. 
Journey, I on my, 189. 
Journeys end in lovers meeting, 196. 
Jove in his chair, 196. 

laughs at lovers' perjury, 196,252 

like a painted, 245. 

the front of, 95. 
Joy for ever, 196. 

no joy like by-past, 203. 

snatch a fearful, 196. 

the luminous cloud, 196. 

turns at the touch of, 249. 
Joyful school days, 81. 

scorn, 196. 
Joyous prime, 196. 
Joys departed, 196. 

we dote upon, 19. 
Judge, among fools a, 154. 

not appearance, 21. 
Judges, fool with, 154. 

the sentence sign, 117, 
Judgment falls upon a man, 196. 
Judgments as our watches, 196. 
Judicious grieve, 197. 

drank, 105. 
Juliet is my sun. 207. 
Julius, ere the mightiest, fell, 170. 



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INDEX. 



June, leafy month of, 64. 

seek ice in, 92. 
Juno's eyes, lids of, 103. 
Jury guiltier than him they try, 197. 
Jurymen may dine, 117. 
Just are the ways of God, 165. 

as the twig- is bent, 130. 

at the age 'tvvixt, 6. 

be, and fear not, 13. 

knows, and no more, 158. 
Justice, this even-handed, 62. 

Katerfelto with hair on end, 198. 
Keen-eyed, cold, fair, 135. 
Keep me innocent, 198. 
Keeper, am 1 my brother's, 65. 
Kettle that sings on the hob, 198. 
Key that opes the palace of eternity, 

134. 
Keys of all the creeds, 198. 
Kibe, galls his, 7. 
Kick against the pricks, 262. 

in that place, 62. 

may kill a sound divine, 198. 
Kid, leopard lie dowm with the, 198. 
Kidney, man of my, 219. 
Kin, a little more than, 198. 

makes the whole world, 236. 

prohibited degrees of, 263. 
Kind, fellow-feeling makes one won- 
drous, 149. 

honoured, fair, and, 184. 
Kindly, frosty but, 7. 
Kindness, way of, 198. 

milk of human, 226. 
Kindred drops, 231. 
King, balm from anointed, 198. 

Cophetua, 43. 

divinity doth hedge, 118. 

every inch a, 136. 

God save the, 165. 

here lies our sovereign, 181. 

himself has followed her, 199. 

of day, 198. 

of France went up a hill, 224. 

of good fellows, 149. 

of more than men, 199. 

of shreds and patches, 248. 

so excellent a, 179. 

Stephen was a worthy peer, 62. 
Kingdom for a horse, 234. 



Kingdom, my mind to me a, 227. 
Kings have no such couch, 199. 

may be blest, 191. 

sad stories of death of, 281. 

the right divine of, 275. 
King's name a tower of strength, 307. 
Kirk the nar, 84. 
Kiss, but in the cup, 100. 

drew whole soul with, 300. 

kind, before we part, 123. 

snatched hasty, 199. 

to every sedge, 132. 

with one long, 300. 

what is thing we call, 199. 
Kisses remembered, 111. 

stolen, sweeter, 199. 
Kit-kat, 199. 
Kitchen bred, 56. 

cool, was his, 94. 
Kite's dinner, 178. 
Kithe nor kin, 199. 
Kitten, rather be a, 33. 
Knave, how- absolute the, is, 1. 

more than fool, 287. 
Knell, it is a, 200. 

of my departed hours, 185. 

overpowering, 199. 

that summons thee, 200. 
Knife, war even to the, 200. 
Knight, a gentle, 262. 
Knight's bones are dust, 124. 
Knock, and it shall be opened, 27. 

as you please, 248. 

at my ribs, 285. 
Know ye the land, 217. 

then thyself, 263. 
Knowest my old ward, 77. 
Knowledge, according to, 201. 

grow, 200. 

is, ourselves to know, 200. 

is power, 200. 

is proud, 200. 

who loves not, 201. 
Known, to be for ever, 201. 
Know-nothings, 201. 
Knuckle down at taw, 201. 
Knuckle-end of England, 201. 
Kosciusko fell, freedom shriek'd, 158. 

Labour, ease and alternate, 23. 
for my travail, 202. 



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373 



Labour is worship, 202. 

of love, 20-2. 

we delight in, 244. 

youth of, 7. 
Laboured nothings, 202. 
Labourer worthy of his reward, 202. 
Laburnums dropping- wells of fire, 

202. 
Lack-lustre eye. 139. 
Ladder of our thoughts, 202. 
Ladies be but young and fair, 48. 

intellectual, 180. 

little dogge, 120. 

whose eyes ram influence, 140. 
Lady doth protest too much, 202. 
Lady's in the case, 202. 
Lady-smocks, all silver-white, 103. 
Laid on with a trowel, 202. 
Lamb, God tempers the wind to the 
shorn, 166. 

one dead, 72. 

to the slaughter, 294. 

Una with her milk-white, 231. 
Lamps in old sepulchral urns, 202. 

shone o'er fair women, 140. 
Land, bowels of the, 59. 

flowing with milk, 202. 

know ye the, 217. 

my own, my native, 62. 

of brown heath, 69. 

of Calvin, 201. 

o' cakes, 239. 

of scholars, 240. 

of the free, 34. 

where cypress and myrtle, 217. 

where lemon-trees bloom, 217 
(note). 
Langsyne, 30, 203. 

minds ye o', 203. 

not match, 203. 
Language, Chatham's, 15. 

lust speaks in, 77. 

of the soul, 203. 

that those lips had, 203. 
Languages, feast of, 148. 

ignorant of foreign, 190. 
Lap it in Elysium, 131. 

me in soft Lydian airs, 311. 
Lapland night, lovely as a, 8. 
Lards the lean earth, 203. 
Lark at heaven's ffate sing's, 253. 



Lark the bonnie, 203. 
Larks, catch, if heavens fall, 276. 
Lasses, then she made the, 219. 
Last at His cross, 21. 

link is broken, 203. 

not least in love, 203. 

of all the Romans, 277. 

rose of summer, 203. 

scene of all, 8. 

the, and first, 14. 

to lay the old aside, 37. 

year, my love, it was my hap, 203 
Late, choosing and beginning, 203. 

known too, 203. 
Latin no more difficile, 48. 

small, 171. 
Laugh a siege to scorn, 34. 

loud, that spoke the vacant mind, 
228. 

that win, 314. 

thee to scorn, 284. 

who but must, 204. 
Laugheth in the languid moon, 204. 
Laughing because nothing to say, 204. 
Laughter holding both his sides, 88. 
Law and testimony, 204. 

love is the fulfilling of, 204. 

nothing is, that is not reason, 
204. 

old father antic the, 147. 

of fools, 231. 

rich men rule the, 274. 

seat of, in bosom of God, 204. 

seven hours to, 288. 

which moulds a tear, 204. 

wmdy side of the, 204. 

windward of the, 204 (n.),329. 
Lawful to do with mine own, 228. 
Laws grind the poor, 274. 

made for every degree, 204. 

or kings cause or cure, 101. 
Lay on, Macduff, 215. 
Leaf, drop into grave, old, 204. 

fade as a, 142. 

falls with the, 144. 

green, lie lightly, 127. 

of pity writ, 254. 

sere, the yellow, 101. 
Leafy month of June, 64. 
Lean and slipper'd pantaloon, 8. 

fellow beats all conquerors, 91. 



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INDEX. 



Leap, look before you, 71. 
Leaped from their scabbards, 7. 
Learn of the little nautilus, 73. 

to labour, 306. 

we live and, 208. 
Learned dust, 125. 

reflect, 204. 
Learning, progeny of, 263. 

scraps of, 284. 

wiser without books, 56. 
Least, of two evils choose, 205. 
Leather or prunello, 265. 
Leave her to Heaven, 205. 

no stone unturned, 306. 

often took, 72. 
Leaves have their time to fall, 109. 

of the forest, 205. 
Leer, assent with civil, 104. 
Left free, the human will, 47. 

hand know, 14. 
Legion, my name is, 235. 
Leisure, retired, 273. 
Lends corruption lighter wings, 50. 
Leopard change his spots, 135. 

lie down with the kid, 198. 
Less, beautifully, 40. 

Greek, 171. 

of two evils, 137. 

than archangel, 23. 
Lesson, useful to the head, 56. 
Let dearly, or let alone, 299. 

dogs delight, 120. 

observation view, 220. 

others hail the rising sun, 268. 

the toast pass, 137. 

those love now, 205. 

us do or die, 116. 
Lethe wharf, 147. 
Letters, Cadmus gave, 266. 

Heaven first taught, 179. 
Letting " 1 dare not," 72. 
Lewd fellows, 36. 
Lexicon of youth, 142. 
Liar of the first magnitude, 149. 
Libel, Bible interpreted, 205. 

greater the truth, greater the, 
205. 
Liberal education, to love her, 205. 
Libertine, penitent, 251. 

the air a chartered, 9. 
Liberty and Union, 205. 



Liberty, crimes in the name of, 205. 

I must have, withal, 205. 

or death, give me, 205. 

valour, and virtue, 236. 
Liberty's unclouded blaze, 107. 
Library was dukedom, 124. 
License they mean when they cry 

liberty, 206. 
Lick the dust, 125. 
Licks the hand just raised, 99. 
Lids of Juno's eyes, 103. 
Lie, give the world the, 165. 

nothing can need, 105. 

thou must give the, 336. 
Liege of all loiterers, 104. 
Lies, dash'd and brew'd with, 206. 

like truth, 206. 
Life, best portion of a good man's, 4. 

care's an enemy to, 71. 

charmed, 76. 

crown of, 99. 

death in, 109. 

has passed with me but roughly, 
203. 

in short measures, 206. 

in the midst of, 109. 

is a waste of hours, 206. 

is all a cheat, 77. 

is but an empty dream, 122. 

is thorny, 216. 

nothing became him like the 
leaving it, 108. 

o' the building, 91. 

one crowded hour of, 8. 

perfect in short measures, 206. 

protracted woe, 206. 

rounded with a sleep, 10. 

sequestered vale of, 314. 

set upon a cast, 72. 

slits the thin-spun, 145. 

tedious as a twice-told tale, 
217. 

the wave of, 206. 

the wine of, 206. 

there's hope while, 184. 

to live, 335. 

variety's the spice of, 206. 

was gentle, 131. 

was in the right, 143. 

web of our, 206. 

wheels of weary, 85. 



INDEX. 



375 



L::~t whose, is in the right, 336. 
you take mj, 185. 
lood of our enterprise, 133. 
Life's 

but a means unto an end, 166. 
but an empty dream, 122. 
but walking shadow. 7 
dull round. 1.5. 
enchanted cnp, 206. 
fitful fever, 6. 
great end, 206. 
morning march, 221. 
poor play is o'er, 38. 
tale, 178. 
vast, ocean, 271. 
Li^ht be the hand of ruin laid, 
183. 
burning and a shining, 206. 
casting a dun religious, 117. 
fantastic toe, 88. 
for aftertimes, 207. 
in woman's eyes, 140. 
of a dark eye, 75. 
of love. 52, 141. 
of the Ma&onian star, 216. 
of the world, 84. 
seeking light, 207. 
start into, 207. 
that led astray, 146. 
that never was on sea or land, 

n. 

thi u^h yonder window, 207. 

to lighten the Gentiles, 207. 
Ik while ye have, 207. 

which heaven sheds, 207. 

within breast, 61, 181. 
Lights burning, 207. 

of mild philosophy, 69. 

that do mislead the morn, 285. 
Like Aaron's sfrpent, 222. 

a forked radish. 1 5 G , 

a passing thought, 248. 

a wounded snake. 11. 
Like fini-eV visits. 19. 

but^ oh ! how different, 207. 

dew on the mountain, 208. 

the base Indian, 250. 

we shall not look upon his, 219, 
Lilies of the field, consider the, 150 
Lily, to paint the, 137. 
Lily's sweet, the, 278. 



Limbo, 208. 

Limbs, recreant, 69. 

Limit at which forbearance ceases, 

of becoming mirth, 129. 
Line he could wish to blot, 52. 

in the very first, 208. 

longest, in Europe, 308. 

stretch out, 96. 

too, labours, 11. 

upon line, 261. 

we carved not a, 14. 
Linen, you're wearing out, 208. 
Lines fallen in pleasant places, 255. 
Lining, cloud with silver, 86. 
Linked sweetness, 311. 

with one virtue, 94. 
Lion, beard the, 39. 

hind mated by the, 182. 

in the lobby roar, 208. 

in the way, 307. 

lip of a, 61. 

living dog better than a dead, 
119. 

the devil as a roaring, 115. 
Lion-heart, lord of the, 294. 
Lion's mane, dew-drop from, 9. 
Lip, coral, admires, 78. 

I ne'er saw nectar on a, 237. 

vermeil-tinctured, 231. 
Lippes red as rose, 278. 
Lips all cherry red, 199. 

had language, 203. 

heart on her, 300. 

red are her ripe, 283. 

smile on her, 208. 

steeped to the, 229. 

suck forth my soul, 190. 

take those, away, 285. 

were four red roses, 208. 

were red, her, 82. 
Liquid fire, 118. 
Liquors, hot and rebellious. 51. 
Lisped in numbers, 240. 
Literary cooks, 208. 
Little foxes spoil the vines, 157. 

here a little and there, 261. 

leaven, 208. 

mouth, 230. 
more than kin, 198. 
Live alway, I would not, 15. 



376 



INDEX. 



Live and learn, 208. 

laborious days, 145. 

taught us how to, 116. 

to please, must please to live, 

208. 
while you live, 229. 
with thee and be thy love, 190. 
with them, less sweet, 208. 
Lively to severe, 170. 
Livery, evening in her sober, 135. 

of heaven, 115. 
Lives, lovely and pleasant in their, 
110. 
of great men, 156. 
sublime, 156. 
Lobster, boiled, sun like a, 48. 
Local habitation and a name, 10. 
Locked, lettered, braw brass collar, 
162. 
up in steel, 61. 
Locks, hyacinthine, 139. 

knotted and combined, 286. 
never shake thy gory, 168. 
Lodge in vast wilderness, 288. 
Lodgings in unfurnished head, 177. 
Loins girded about, 207. 
Lonely Niobe, 209. 
pleasure, 55. 
want, 19. 
Long choosing, 203. 
drawn aisle, 11. 
in city pent, 209. 
live the king, 165. 
years of repentance, 77. 
Look before you leap, 71. 
ere thou leap, 209. 
here upon this picture, 95. 
longing, lingering, 209. 
not upon the wine, 209. 
on her face, 134. 
Looked, no sooner, 209. 

unutterable things, 209. 
Looker-on here in Vienna, 209. 
Looming bastion, 36. 
Looped and windowed raggedness, 

250. 
Loopholes of retreat, 256. 
Loose his beard, 39. 
Lord Fanny spins thousand such, 209. 
hath taken away, 209. 
John Russell, 210. 



Lord loveth,whom,he chasteneth,209. 

May'r, of the sky, 196. 

of all things, 75. 

of folded arms, 104. 

of himself, 181, 210. 

of thy presence, 210. 

what a doleful place, 209. 
Lord's anointed temple, 91. 
Lords of human kind, 112. 

of time, 280. 

women who love their, 172. 
Loss is common, 210. 
Losses, fellow that hath had, 149. 
Lost, all save honour, 210. 

battle, 57. 

think that day, 3. 

to life and use, 210. 
Loth to depart, 72. 
Lothario, gay, 162. 
Lot's wife, remember, 272. 
Louder, a little, 38. 
Love at first sight, 292. 

all whom I, 211. 

beggary in, 43. 

be controuled, 210. 

be offwi' the auld, 226. 

can die, 212. 

can hope, 114. 

casteth out fear, 148. 

change old for new, 212. 

course of true, 96. 

deep as first, 111. 

ecstasy of, 130. 

endures no tie, 196. 

forsrive us, 210. 

fulfilling of the law, 204. 

harvest- time of, 212. 

her, a liberal education, 205. 

homily of, 265. 

hurt with jar, 195. 

in a hut, 210. 

in such a wilderness, 211. 

is a boy, 81. 

is a sickness, 210. 

is heaven, 211. 

is light from heaven, 289. 

is loveliest, 211. 

labour of, 202. 
live with me, and be my, 88. 
looks not with eyes, 100. 
lost between us, 211. 



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377 



Love me little, 212. 

ministers of, 13. 

must needs be blind, 211. 

never did run smooth, 96. 

of life increased with years, 
212. 

of praise, 212. 

of the turtle, 217. 

of women, 212, 213. 

offwi' the old, 211. 

on through all ills, 212. 

pity melts mind to, 255. 

pity swells tide of, 255. 

pity's akin to, 255. 

purple light of, 52. 

rules the court, 211. 

sensibility to, 213. 

she never told her, 77. 

sought is good, 212. 

speaks, when, 179. 

that they, and sing, 13. 

that took an early root, 310. 

the harvest-time of, 212. 

the offender, 212. 

the secret sympathy of, 228. 

the silver link of, 228. 

they happv prove, 211. 

thyself last, 212. 

to hatred turned, 176. 

to me was wonderful, 213. 

too divine to, 118. 

too much, 175. 

tunes the shepherd's reed, 211. 

vain regret, 195. 

was true, 213. 

what most deserves love, 211. 

will find out the way, 211. 

wroth with one we, 216. 
Love's young dream, 213. 
Loved and lost, 'tis better, 318. 

how, how honoured, 177. 

no sooner, 209. 

Rome more, 68. 

thee less, 213. 
Love-darting eyes, 231. 
Loveliness needs not ornament, 213. 
Lovely and fearful thing, 212. 

in their lives, 110. 
Lover w^hy so pale, 245. 

with a woeful ballad, 8. 
Lovers love the western star, 213. 



Lovers meeting, 196. 
Lovers' perjury, 196. 
Loves, nobler, 50. 
Low ambition, 217. 
Lucent sirups, 294. 
Lucifer, falls like, 144. 

son of the morning, 213. 
Lucre, greed of filthy, 150. 
Lucy ceased to be, 170. 
Lullaby, 213. 

Lunatic, lover, and the poet, 191. 
Lunes, old, 213. 
Lute, listened to a, 95. 
Luve of life's young day, 213. 
Luve's like a red rose, 213. 
Luxury, blesses his stars and thinks 
It, 49. 

cursed by Heaven's decree, 214. 

is an enticing" pleasure, 213. 

of doing good, 167, 214. 

of woe, 214. 

to be, 214. 

was doing good, 214. 
Lydian airs, lap me in, 311, 329. 
Lyfe so short, 26. 
Lying, easy as, 129. 

this world is given to, 291. 
Lyre, each mood of the, 214. 

waked to ecstasy, 131. 

Mab, Queen, hath been with you, 6. 
Macassar, incomparable, 215. 
Macbeth does murder sleep, 34. 
Macduff, lay on, 215. 
Macedonia's madman, 181. 
Machiavel had ne'er a trick, 215. 
Mad, pleasure in being, 215. 

that he is, 'tis true, 215. 
Madden round the land, 215. 

to crime, 217. 
Made o' an obtain a kiss, 215. 
Madness, fine, 150. 

great wits allied to, 216. 

in the brain, 216. 

method in it, 215. 

moody, 216. 

moonstruck, 223. 

would gambol from, 216. 
Maeonian star, light of, 216. 
Magic of a name, 169. 
Maid, the chariest, 76. 



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INDEX. 



Maid-mother by a crucifix, 216, 
Maiden betrayed for gold, 216. 
meditation, 216. 

of bashful fifteen, 137. 
Maidens innocently young, 216. 

like moths are caught, 164. 

withering on stalk, 304. 
Maids who love the moon, 153. 
Main chance, 217. 
Make an end the sooner, 132. 

the worse appear the better. 46. 
Makes simplicity a grace, 5. 
Making night hideous, 90. 

the green one red, 285. 
Malice, eloquent in, 131. 
Mammon, the least erected spirit.274. 

wins his way, 164. 
Man, a Christian is the highest 
style of, 83. 

a debtor to his profession, 110. 

a flower, 153. 

a fool at forty, 37. 

a merrier, 229. 

a noticeable, 139, 

a proper, as one shall see, 217. 

a sadder and a wiser, 281. 

a true, 327. 

after his own heart, 217. 

all may do what has been done 
by. 217. 

architect of his own fortune. 24. 

as good kill a, as a book, 55. 

bear his own burden, 67. 

best good, 283. 

better spared a better, 46. 

beware fury of patient, 160. 

blind old, of Scio, 50. 

broken with the storms of state, 
54. 

child is father of the, 80. 

childhood shows the, 81. 

creature of circumstance, 218. 

dare do all that may become a, 105 

delights not me, 218. 

despised old, 217. 

dressed in a little brief authority. 
18. 

dull ear of a drowsy, 217. 

expatiate free o'er all this scene 
of, 217. 

foremost. 156. 



Man, free as nature first made, 158. 
give me that, 254. 
give the world assurance of a, 29. 
goeth to his Ions,' home, 218. 
good old, 218. 
happy the, 218. 
honest, the noblest work. 149. 
if a, should speak truly, 218. 
in maid's attire, 256. 
in the moon. 250. 
is born unto trouble. 301. 
is distant, but God is near, 217. 
is one world. 218. 
lay down his life, 218. 
lays hand upon a woman, 198. 
let him pass for a, 218. 
little better than the wicked, 218. 
little round, fat, oily, 218. 
living dead, 218. 
loves meat in youth, 21. 
made tbetown.69(note), 95,165. 
made us citizens, 84. 
makes a Death, 109. 
mark the perfect, 218. 
may cry, Church. Church, 305. 
mildest-mannered. 290. 
mind's the standard of. 218, 228> 
never is, but alwavs to be blest, 

50. 
no, suddenly good, 218. 
not good to be alone. 14. 
not passion's slave, 254. 
of mettle. 237. 
of morals. 219. 
of my kidney, 219. 
of pleasure, man of pains, 219. 
of Ross, 278. 
of the world. 219. 
of unbounded stomach, 306. 
of wisdom is the man of vears, 

219. 
of woe, not always a, 219. 
pity the sorrows of a poor old, 255 
"prentice ban" she tried on, 219. 
profited, for wbat is, 299. 
proposes, God disposes, 219. 
reading maketh the full, 270. 
recovered of the bite, 119. 
remote from, 260. 
scan your brother, 193. 
shall not live by bread alone, 61. 



INDEX. 



379 



Man should write for men, 219. 

soweth, that shall he reap, 300. 

spirit of, divine, 217. 

stagger like a drunken, 124. 

struggling in the storms of fate, 
144. 

study of mankind is, 263. 

take him for all in all, 219. 

thankless, inconsistent, 219. 

that blushes is not quite a brute, 
220. 

that hails you Tom, 32. 

that hanss on princes' favours, 
144. 

that hath a tongue, 220. 

that hath no music, 90. 

that meddles with cold iron, 193. 

that rennith awaie, 150. 

the fury of a patient, 160. 

the hermit, sighed, 220. 

the right, in right place, 275. 

the wisest, who is not wise at 
all, 220. 

this is the state of, 53. 

thou art the, 106. 

to all the country dear, 157. 

under his fig-tree, 220. 

use, after his desert, 113. 

wants but little, 220. 

was made to mourn, 217. 

what can an old, do but die, 220. 

what, dare, I dare, 105. 

who has trail'd pen, 251. 

who knew the, 294. 

who turnips cries, 220. 

whom benevolence warms, 45. 

wise in his own conceit, 90. 

wished heaven had made her 
such a, 248. 

with him was God or devil, 166. 

with large gray eyes, 139. 

without a tear, 306. 

with soul so dead, 62. 

worth makes the, 265. 
Mane, hand upon thy , 220,241 (note) . 
Manhood, sunny, 184. 
Mankind, men think their little set,53. 

proper study of, 263. 

survey, from China to Peru, 220. 

wisest, brightest, meanest of, 
329. 



Mankind's epitome, 133. 
Manna, his tongue dropped, 46. 
Manner born, to the, 61. 
Manners, corrupt good, 136. 

gentle of, 293. 

had not that repose, 220. 
Mans best things, 220. 

first disobedience, 160. 

heart deviseth his way, 219 
(note). 

house his castle, 72. 

imperial race, 40. 

inhumanity to man, 192. 

love a thing apart, 220. 

the gowd for a' that, 269. 

unconquerable mind, 13. 

wickedness, 218 (note). 
Mansions, in my Father's house, 220. 
Mantle of the standing pool, 258. 
Manuscript, to zig-zag, 161. 
Many a time and oft, 221. 

are called, 149. 

labour for the one, 221. 
I\Iany-headed monster, 146, 221. 
Marathon looks on the sea, 221. 
Marble, sleep in dull, cold, 295. 

to retain, 221. 

with his name, 83. 
Marcellus, exiled feels, 69. 
March, beware the Ides of, 190. 

in life's morning, 221. 

is o'er the mountain waves, 64. 

mild day of, 221. 

the stormy, 221. 

through Coventry, 96. 
Marched on without impediment, 59. 
Marcia towers above her sex, 221. 
Mare, gray, the better horse, 170. 
Margin, a meadow of, 276. 
Mariners of England, 36. 
Mark the archer little meant, 289. 

the perfect man, 218. 
Marlborough's eyes, 121. 
Marmion, the last words of, 76. 
Marriage-bell, merry as a, 140. 

of true minds, 15. 
Married in haste, 222. 

to immortal verse, 311, 329. 
Marry ancient people, 221. 

me, when shall I, 221. 

proper time to, 83. 



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INDEX. 



Mars, an eye like, 95. 

Marshal's t me the way, 222. 

Martial cloak around him, 222. 

Martyrs, blood of the, 51. 

Mary hatb chosen that good part,222. 

Mast, nail to the, 281. 

Master Brook, think of that, 222. 

passion in the breast, 222. 

spirits of this age, 7. 
Matchless men of Tipperary, 222. 
Mate, choose not alone proper, 83. 
Matrons who toss the cup, 172. 
Matter will re-word, 216. 
Mattock and the grave, 222. 
Maudlin poetess, 247. 
Maxims preaching down a daughter's 

heart, 222. 
May, chills the lap of, 222. 

merry month of, 27. 
Maytime and cheerful dawn, 222. 
Maze, a mighty, 217. 
Mazes, wandering, lost, 131. 
Meadow of margin, 276\ 
Meadows, brown and sere, 107. 

paint with delight, 103. 

trim with daisies pied, 57, 103. 
Meaner beauties of the night, 40. 
Means of evil out of good, 222. 

the end must justify the, 132. 

whereby 1 live, 185. 
Measure, to tread a, on the grass, 226. 
Measures, life perfect in short, 206. 

not men, 222. 
Meat, eat but little, 187. 

it feeds on, 230. 
Meats, funeral baked, 160. 
Meccas of the mind, 112. 
Meddles with cold iron, 193. 
Medes and Persians, law of, 223. 
Medicine, miserable have no other, 

. 223 - 
Medicine to that sweet sleep, 259. 

Medicines to make me love him, 223. 

Meditation, fancy free, 216. 

Meditative spleen, 302. 

Meed of some melodious tear, 223. 

Meek-eyed morn, 223. 

Meettheelikeapleasantthought,223. 

Meeting-points the hair dissever,223. 

Melancholy days, 107. 

green and yellow, 77. 



Melancholy main, 223. 

marked him, 58. 

moping, 223. 

most musical, 47. 

of mine own, 279. 
-Melodies, heard, are sweet, 302. 
Melodious tear, 223. 
Melody of every grace, 169. 
Mellowing of occasion, 253. 

year, 45. 
Melrose, if thou wouldest view, 142. 
Melt into sorrow, 217. 
Melting airs, 83. 

mood, 223. 
Memory, dear son of, 223. 

holds a seat, 223. 

indebted for his jests, 142. 

morning-star of, 289. 

of all he stole, 223. 

pluck from the, 20. 

table of my, 223. 

ventricle of, 253. 

Walton's heavenly, 224. 

warder of the brain, 60. 

watches, 223. 
Men, all the, merely players, 304. 

are April when they woo, 224. 

are but children, 82. 

are you good and true, 168. 

beneath the rule of, 251. 

busy hum of, 67. 

by losing rendered sager, 224. 

constanter in love, 224. 

cradled into poetry, 248. 

decay, 61. 

draw, as they ought to be, 122. 

forty thousand, w r ent up a hill, 
224. 

have died, not for love, 224. 

impious, bear sway, 259. 

justify the ways of God to, 105. 

masters of their fates, 304. 

may rise on stepping-stone s, 224. 

may live fools, 224. 

must be taught, 224. 

my brothers, 65. 

of inward light, 224. 

of sense approve, 154. 

only disagree, 115. 

rich, rule the law, 274. 

schemes of mice and, 283. 



INDEX. 



381 



Men, sleek-headed, 72. 

some, eonstanter, 224. 

some, to business take, 136. 

sport ofcircumstances, 218 (note) 

talk only to conceal their mind. 
224. 

the evil they do lives after them, 
54. 

the workers, 65. 

think their little set mankind, 53. 

tide in the affairs of, 157. 

were deceivers ever, 291. 

were made for us, 225. 

what, dare do, 225. 

when bad, combine, 224. 

who their duties know, 225. 

whose heads do grow, 20. 

world knows nothing of its 
greatest, 224. 

would be angels, 18. 

would be cowards, 224. 
Men's business and bosoms, 57. 

evil manners, 60. 
Mens regnum bona possidet, 227. 
Merchants are princes, 225. 

do congregate, 91. 
Mercies in disguise, afflictions, 225. 

tender, 39. 
Mercy, a God all, 165. 

and truth are met, 275. 

1 to others show, 225. 

is not strained, 268. 

Nobility's true badge, 225. 

seasons justice, 268. 

shut the gates of, 291. 

sighed farewell, 225. 

temper justice with, 225. 
Merit, her, lessened yours, 141. 

modest men dumb on their own, 
124. 

wins the soul, 76. 
Merits, be kind to, 225. 
Mermaid, things done at the, 225. 
Mermaid's yellow pride of hair, 42. 
Merriment, Hashes of, 151. 
Merry and carouse, 66. 

and wise, 226. 

and wise, gude to be, 211. 

as a marriage-bell, 140. 

as the day is long, 106. 

in hall when beards wag all, 39. 



Merry monarch, 226. 

when 1 hear sweet music, 225. 
Metal more attractive, 226. 

sonorous, 75. 
Metaphysic wit, high as, 226. 
Meteor flag of England, 105. 

streamed like a, 39. 

streaming to the wind, 192. 
Method in madness, 215. 

of making a fortune, 63. 
Metre of an antique song, 298. 
Mettle, grasp it like a man of, 237. 
Mewling and puking, 8. 
Mezentius, torment of, 108. 
Mice, and such small deer, 112. 

best-laid schemes of, 283. 

little, stole in and out, 56 (note), 
149. 
Micher, sun of heaven prove, 226. 
Miching mallecho, 226. 
Middle°age, 226. 
Midnight dances, 226. 

oil, consumed, 226. 

shout and revelry, 273. 
Midwife, the fairies', 6. 
Mien, vice is a monster of so fright- 
ful, 132. 
Mighty fallen, 36. 

hopes that make us men, 226. 

shrine of the, 291. 
Mildness, ethereal, 88. 
Mile, measured many a, 226. 
Miles, travel twelve stout, 94. 
Militia, rude, swarms, 269. 
Milk and water, 0, 193. 

of human kindness, 226. 
Miller hale and bold, 227. 

. jolly, 227. 
Millions for defence, 227. 

of spiritual creatures, 97. 
Mill-stone about his neck, 227. 
Milton, how many a rustic, 298. 

mute, inglorious, 298. 
Mind, be fully persuaded in, 252. 

content crown and kingdom, 99. 

diseased, minister to a, 20. 

eyes are in his, 211. 

farewell the tranquil, 93. 

fleet is a glance of the, 227. 

gives to her, what he steals, from 
her youth, 227. 



382 



INDEX. 



Mind is its own place, 227. 

is pitched the ear is pleased, 83. 

laugh that spoke the vacant, 228. 

man's unconquerable, 13. 

Meccas of the, 112. 

men talk only to conceal, 224. 

movements of the Eternal, 329. 

N ature's first great title, 227. 

noble, o'erthrown, 228. 

out of sight, out of, 292. 

proper judge of man, 228. 

she had a frugal, 257. 

to me a kingdom is, 227. 

to me an empire, 227. 

to mind, 228. 
Mind's construction in the face, 141. 

eye, Horatio, 139. 

the standard of the man, 218, 228. 
Minds are not ever craving, 55. 

innocent, 69. 

marriage of true, 15. 

that have nothing to confer, 228. 
Mine be a cot, 94. 

host of the Garter, 162. 

own, do what I will with, 228. 
Mingle, mingle, mingle, 48. 
Mingles all my brown, 228. 
Minions of the moon, 116. 
Minister to a mind diseased, 20. 
Ministering angel, 17. 
Ministers of grace, 17. 

of love, 13. 
Minnows, Triton of the, 228. 
Minstrels, Nature's, 228. 
Miracle instead of wit, 2. 
Mirror up to nature, 228. 
Mirth, and innocence, 193. 

and fun grew fast and furious, 
160. 

can into folly glide, 154. 

limit of becoming, 229. 

string attuned to, 83. 
Miser's pensioner, 148. 
Miserable comforters, 89. 

no other medicine, 223. 

to be weak, 229. 
Misery, a tear to, 58. 

acquaints a man with strange 
bedfellows, 42. 

steeped to the lips in, 229. 
Mist, Ilion like a, 229. 



Mist of years, 229. 

Mistress of herself, though china fall, 

229. 
Misty mountain-tops, 106. 
Moan of doves, 43. 
Mob of gentlemen, 163. 

reform defective laws, 271. 
Mockery of woe, 226. 

solemn, is o'er, 297. 

unreal, 229. 
Modern instances, full of wise saws 

and, 8. 
Modes of faith, 336. 
Modest men on their own merits 
dumb, 124. 

stillness and humility, 49. 
Modesty scarcely held crime, 59. 

who, when she goes, 229. 
Modesty's a candle, 229. 
Module of earth, 281. 
Moment, give to God each, 229. 
Moments make the year, 29£. 
Monarch in a porter's ears, 201. 

of all I survey, 229. 
Monarchies, mightiest, 30. 
Monarchs, change perplexes, 117. 
Monastic brotherhood, 65. 
Money is trash, 71. 

much, as 'twill bring, 21. 

put in thy purse, 266. 

still get, 163. 

the root of all evil, 136. 
Mongrel, puppy, whelp, 100. 
Monks of old, 230. 
Monster, a faultless, 230. 

green-eyed, 230. 

of the pit, 230. 
Month, a little, 230. 
Months without an r, 230. 
Monument, patience on a, 77. 
Mood, listening, 230. 

unused to the melting, 223. 
Moody madness, 216. 
LMoon, auld, in her arms, 230. 

be a dog, and bay the, 37, 119. 

by yonder blessed, 310. 

followed by a single star, 230. 

glimpses of the, 90, 305 (note). 

man in the, 230. 

pluck honour from the pale- 
faced, 63. 



INDEX, 



383 



Moon, shine at full or no, 230. 

sits arbitress, 44. 

swear not by the, 310. 

takes up the wondrous tale, 135. 

the inconstant, 310. 

was made of green cheese, 78. 
Moon's an arrant thief, 90. 

despair, 42. 
Moonlight shade, 326. 

sleeps upon this bank, 230. 
Moonstruck madness, 223. 
Moor, lady married to the, 231. 
Moral distinctions, 231. 

to point a, 5. 
Moralist, the rustic, 280. 
More blessed to give, 49. 

faith in honest doubt, 231. 

honoured in breach, 61. 

in heaven than dreamt of, 128. 

in sorrow than anger, 19. 

is meant than meets the ear, 126. 

sinned against, 294. 

than a crime, 53. 

than kin, 198. 

than the Pope of Rome, 259. 

things in heaven and earth, 128. 
Morn and liquid dew of youth, 92. 

her rosy steps, 250. 

in russet mantle clad, 231. 

risen on mid-noon, 231. 

tresses like the, 231. 

to noon he fell, 135. 
Morning of the time, 17. 

star of memory, 289. 

stars sang together, 231. 

wore to evening, 210. 
Morrow, no thought for the, 107. 
Mortal, all men think all men, 13. 

coil, 38. 

to the skies, he raised a, 290. 
Mortals, some feelings are to, given, 
128. 

to command success, 287. 
Moss, gather no, 306. 
Mossy cell, 94. 
Most'infallible of rules, 231. 

musical, most melancholy, 47. 

miserable dearth of tears, 231. 

need of blessing, 16. 
Motes that people the sunbeams, 231. 
Mother in Israel, 231. 



Mother, is a mother still, 231. 

of arts, 26. 

the holiest thing alive, 231. 
Mother's milk, 100. 
Moths, maidens like, 164. 
Motion of a hidden fire, 261. 
Motionless torrents, 73. 
Motley's the only wear, 231. 
Mould a pin, 298. 

ethereal, 150. 

of form, 147. 
Moulded on one stem, 45. 
Moulder piecemeal, 291. 
Mountain girl, 125. 

in its azure hue, 118. 

small sands the, 296. 

waves, her march is o'er the, 64. 
Mountain -tops, ascends to, 232. 

misty, 106. 
Mountains, Greenland's icy, 6. 

kiss high heaven, 232. 

look on Marathon, 221. 

make enemies, 231. 
Mounting in hot haste, 232. 
Mourned in silence, 232. 

the loved, 87. 
Mousing owl, 144. 
Mouth, gift-horse in the, 163. 

out of thine own, 232. 

put an enemy in their, 60. 
Mouth-honour, breath, 101. 
Mouth's like ony hinny pear, 232. 
Mouths a sentence, 101. 

of wisest censure, 232. 

without hands, 269. 
Moutons, revenons a nos, 234 (n). 
i Moves one, move all, 273. 
i Moving accidents by flood, 2. 
| Muck, run- a, 279. 
Multitude always in the wrong, 232. 

of counsellors, 95. 

of sins, 76. 
Multitudinous seas, 285. 
Mundus universus exercet histri- 

onem, 304 (note). 
Murder a specious name, 232. 

matter of the, 232. 

one, made a villain, 232. 

that matter of the, 232. 

though it have no tongue, 232. 

thousands, 232. 



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INDEX. 



Murders, twenty mortal, 60. 
Murmur on a thousand years, 307. 
Murmurs, hollow, died away, 232. 

near running- brooks, 233. 
Muse, the jolly, 195. 

worst-natured, 283. 
Music be food of love, 144. 

breathing from her face, 141, 
169 (note). 

discourse most eloquent, 117. 

dish removed to, 233. 

hath charms to soothe, 233. 

heavenly maid, 233. 

his very foot has, 155. 

in my heart, 233. 

never merry when I hear, 225. 

of her face, 169. 

of humanity, 233. 

of village bells, 44, 83. 

slumbers in the shell, 290. 

sphere-descended maid, 233. 

the food of love, 144. 

the man that hath no, 90. 

when soft voices die, 233. 

with enamell'd stones, 132. 

with her silver sound, 233. 

with its voluptuous swell, 140. 
Musical as is Apollo's lute, 21. 

most melancholy, 47. 
Music's golden tongue, 233. 
Musing on companions gone, 233. 
Muskets aimed at duck or plover, 257. 
Mute creation, 234. 

nature mourns, 233. 
Mutton-eating king, 181. 
Muttons, to return to our, 234. 
My Father made them all, 234. 

kingdom for a horse, 234. 

lesson was in thee, 234. 

little girls Were waking, 234. 

native land, good night, 234. 

own, my native land, 62. 

poverty, not my will, 259. 

prophetic soul, 264. 

sentence is for open war, 234. 

voice is still for war, 277. 
Myrtle, cypress and, 217. 
My self, in awe of such a thing as 1, 31 . 
Mystery, burden of the, 66. 

heart of my, 234. 

of mysteries, 234. 



Naebody care for me, 187. 
Naiad of the strand, 230. 

or a grace, 141. 
Naked human heart, 235. 

to my enemies, 132. 

villainy, 235. 
Nail, fabricate a, 298. 

to the mast, 281. 
Nam homo proponit, 219 (note). 
Name, a good, better than precious 
ointment, 167. 

at which the world grew pale, 5. 

deed without a, 111. 

niches me my good, 168. 

good, in man and woman, 168. 

in print, 55. 

is Legion, 235. 

local habitation and a, 10. 

mark the marble with his, 83. 

Phoebus, what a, 253. 

the magic of a, 169. 

what's in a, 276. 

writ in water, 325. 
Names, the few immortal, 191. 
Narcissa's last words, 281. 
Narrow human wit, 235. 
Narrowed his mind, 247. 
Nathan said to David, 106. 
Nation, a small one a strong, 235. 

curled darlings of our, 100. 

noble and puissant, 126. 

righteousness exalteth a, 275.. 

talent of our English, 271. 
Nations, cheap defence of, 77. 

drop of a bucket, 33. 

ingenuous youth of, 335. 

mountains make enemies of, 231. 
Native and to the manner born, 61. 

charm, one, 26. 

wood-notes wild, 324. 
Naturalists observe a flea, 130. 
Natur', child, 80. 
Nature and nature's laws, 235. 

be your teacher, 316. 

broke the die, 116. 

cannot miss, 26. 

commonplace of, 89. 

could no farther go, 10. 

course of, 26. 

denied him much, 235. 

extremes in, 138. 



INDEX. 



385 



Xature formed but one such man, 116. 

for 'tis their, 120. 

framed strange fellows, 236, 

gentleman of, 162. 

holds communion, 89. 

in spite of, 302. 

is subdued to what it works in, 
125. 

lost in art, 236. 

made a pause, 31, 97. 

made them fools, 236. 

made us men, 84. 

might stand up, 131. 

mirror up to, 228. 

mourns when the poet dies, 233. 

never did betray, 236. 

never lends her excellence, 98. 

one touch of, 236. 

rich with spoils of, 274 (note). 

subdued like the dyer's hand, 
125. 

to advantage dressed, 236. 

up to nature's God, 286. 

voice of, 27. 

wears one universal grin, 236. 
Nature's cause is God, 300 (note ). 

chief masterpiece, 26. 

cockloft empty, 177 (note). 

evening comment, 236. 

first o T eat title, 227. 

God, 286. 

hand, fresh from, 236. 

journeymen, 236. 

prentice hand, 236 (note). 

soft nurse, 156. 

sweet restorer, 296. 

teachings, 236. 
Navies are stranded, 88. 
Nazareth, good come out of, 236. 
Neat-handed Phyllis, 253. 
Nee mirum, 6cc. 165 (note). 
Necessity invented stools, 237. 

make a virtue of, 237. 

the tyrant's plea, 111. 

thou mother, 237. 
Necessity's sharp pinch, 237. 
Nectar on a lip, 237. 
Nectared sweets, 21. 
Needle, true as the, 116. 
Needless Alexandrine, 11. 
Ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er, 254. 



Neglected, Tray and Ponto lie, 237. 
N either here nor there, 237. 

rich nor rare, 15. 
Nelly, none so fine as, 282. 
Nemo me repente fuit, 218 (note). 

potest nuda, 51. 
N estor, though, swear, 237. 
Nests, birds of the air have, 157. 

no birds in last year's, 47. 
Nether millstone, 237. 
Nettle danger, 105. 

tender-handed stroke a, 237. 
Never ending, still beginning, 237. 

less alone, 14. 

loved sae blindly, 237. 

met or never parted, 237. 

more, 238. 
New-made honour, 163. 
New-spangled ore, 107. 
News from far country, 87. 
Nicanor dead in his harness, 108. 
Nice, more, than wise, 238. 
Nicely sanded floor, 79. 
Nick, our old, 215. 
Night and chaos, 75. 

beauty like the, 41. 

cheek of, 78. 

cloud, 66. 

day brought back my, 106. 

descending, 288. 

empty vaulted, 105. 

endless, 282. 

hideous, 90, 269. 

how beautiful is, 238. 

in Russia, 280. 

joint labourer, 238. 

lovely as a Lapland, 8. 

meaner beauties of, 40. 

oft in the stilly, 242. 

silver lining on the, 86. 

so full of fearful dreams, 122. 

that fordoes me, 156. 

the day, 57. 

uncreated, 135. 

upon the cheek of, 78. 

watched her breathing through, 
206. 

witching time of, 84. 
Nightingale, music in, 311. 

the restless, 238. 

was mute, 95. 



386 



INDEX. 



Nightingale's high note, 238. 

song in grove, 86. 
Nightly pitch my moving tent, 107. 
Night's candles are burnt out, 106. 

dull ear, 25. 
Nimshi, son of, 195. 
Ninety-eight, who fears to speak of, 

327. 
Ninth part of a hair, 238. 
Niobe, all tears, 238. 

of nations, 238. 

poor lonely, 209. 
No love lost, 211. 

more of that, Hal, 238. 

pent-up Utica, 238. 

room for so much wit, 177. 
Nobility, betwixt the wind and 
his, 46. 

our old, 242. 
Noble of nature's own creating, 236. 

to be good, 238 (note). 

we'll be good, 238. 
Noblest Roman of them all, 277. 

work of God, 149. 
Nobody, I care for, 187. 

I envy, 187. 
Nodosities of the oak, 93 (note). 
Nods and becks, 267. 
Noise of conflict, 91. 

of endless wars, 16. 

of life, 33. 
Non amo te, 188. 
None but the brave, 60. 

think the great unhappy, 171. 
Nooks to lie and read in, 310. 
Noon of thought, 108. 

sailing on obscene wings,athwart 
the, 29. 

to dewy eve, 135. 
North, unripened beauties of the, 245 
North-wind's breath, 109. 
Nor yet the last, 37. 
Norval, my name is, 239. 
Nose, favour of wearing, 239. 

innocent, 313. 

nose, jolly red nose, 239. 
Not a stone tell where I lie, 307. 

dead, but gone before, 239 (n). 

in the vein, 239. 

lost, but gone before, 239. 

means, but blunders, 239. 



Not of an age, 7. 

to speak it profanely, 301. 

what we wish, 239. 
Note of preparation, 25. 

we take no, of time, 44. 

when found, make, of, 239. 
Notes by distance made sweet, 239. 

chiel's amang ye takin', 239. 
Nothing, an infinite deal of, 74. 

before and nothing behind, 47. 

extenuate, 138. 

if not critical, 98. 

that he did not adorn, 5. 

thou elder brother, 239. 

touches, 239. 

true but Heaven, 291. 

went unrewarded, 239. 
Nothingness, dark day of, 41. 

pass into, 40. 
Nothing's so hard, 30. 
N oticeable man, 139. 
Nought so vile on earth, 168. 
Nourisher in life's feast, 34. 
Now, eternal, 240. 

fitted the halter, 72. 

morn her rosy steps, 250. 
Now's the day, 160. 
Nullum magnum ingenium, 216 (n.) 

tetigit quod, 5 (note). 
Numbers, divinity in odd, 118. 

lisped in, 240. 
Nun, the holy time is as quiet as a,240. 
Nunnery of thy chaste breasts, 240. 
Nunn'ry of her brests, 240. 
Nurse of arms, 240. 

of manly sentiment, 77. 
Nurses frighten children, 240. 

still'd their children, 240. 
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm, 

65. 
Nutmeg-graters, be rough as, 278. 
Nutte shale, all n'is worthe, 290. 
Nymph, in thy orisons, 240. 

may be chaste, 240. 

of every charm, 240. 
Nympha pudica Deum vidit, 92. 
Nympholepsy of despair, 240. 

O that this too-too solid flesh, 71. 

then, I see Queen Mab, 6. 
Oak, all is not, 241. 



INDEX. 



387 



Oaks, branch-ch armed, 172. 
Oath, he that imposes an, 241. 

mouth-filling, 241. 
Oaths, false as dicers', 144. 
Obdured breast, 308. 
Obedience, bane of all genius, 260. 
Obliged by hunger, 241. 
Observance, the breach than, 61. 
Observation with extensive view, 

220. 
Observations, ourselves make, 241. 
Observed of all observers, 147. 
Obstruction, to lie in cold, 86. 
Occasion, mellowing of, 253. 

needs but fair, 241. 
Occupation, Othello's, gone, 243. 
Ocean, a painted, 190. 

deep bosom of the, 86. 

drink the, dry, 123. 

grasp with span, 228. 

I have loved thee, 241. 

leans against the land, 241. 

oh ! thou vast, 241. 
Ocean's mane, the, 242. 
Odd numbers, divinity in, 118. 
Odious in woollen, 281. 
Odours, crushed, are sweeter, 167. 
O'er the hills, 242. 
Of all the girls, 282. 
Off with his head, 242. 
Offence, my, is rank, 297. 
Offender, love the, 212. 

never pardons, 156 (note). 

she hugged the, 288. 
Offending, head and front of, 177. 
Officer, fear each bush an, 67. 
Offspring of Heaven first-born, 242. 
Oft in the stilly night, 242. 

repeating, 242. 
Oil, consumed the midnight, 226. 
Old age of cards, 7. 

age comes on apace, 7. 

authors to read, 242. 

father antic, 147. 

friend, 7. 

friends are best, 242. 

friends to trust, 242. 

Grimes is dead, 87. 

iron rang, 96. 

man, despised, 217. 

man do, what can, but die, 220. 



Old men's dream, 122. 

Nick, 215. 

oaken bucket, 65. 

pedigree, 7. 

tale often told, 216. 

wine, 7. 

wine to drink, 242. 

wood to burn, 242. 
Oliver, Rowland for an, 278. 
Omega, Alpha and, 14. 
Omnia vincit amor, 317 (note). 
On and up, 178. 
Once more unto the breach, 49. 
One far-off divine event, 242. 

fell swoop, 79. 

fire burns out, 19. 

God, one law, 242. 

kind wish, 243. 

more unfortunate, 62. 

murder made a villain, 232. 

of those heavenly days, 107. 

pain is lessen'd, 19. 

self-approving hour, 69. 

that hath, unto every, 242. 

the many must labour for the, 
221. 

touch of nature, 236. 

whom God hath taken, 243. 
Only the actions of the just, 3. 
Onward, bear up, and steer right, 24. 
Opinion still, of his own, 90. 
Opinions backed by a wager, 224. 

golden, 166. 

halt between two, 243. 

stiff in, 133. 
Oppression, he who allows, 176, 243. 
Oppressor's wrong, 53. 
Optics, sharp it needs, 243. 
Oracle, I am Sir, 119. 

of God, 292. 
Orator as Brutus, 301 . 
Orators, verv good, 243. 
Orb in orb, 102. 
Order is Heaven's first law, 243. 

of your going, 304. 
Ore, new-spangled, 107. 
Orient pearl, sowed the earth, 250. 
Original brightness, 23. 
Ormuz and of Ind, 33. 
Orpheus, harp of, 130. 

soul of, 78. 



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INDEX. 



Orthodoxy is my doxy, 243. 
Othello's occupation's gone, 243. 
Our acts our angels are, 4. 
Out, brief candle, 70. 

of mind, out of sight, 292. 

went the taper, 243. 
Out-Herods Herod, 243. 
Outrageous fortune, 38. 
Outrun the constable, 92. 
Outward form and feature, 243. 
Over violent or over civil, 166. 
Overcome evil with good, 136. 
Owl, for all his feathers, 243. 

hawked at by a mousing, 144. 

that shrieked, 147. 
Owlet Atheism, 29. 
Own, do what I will with mine, 228. 
Ox, better than a stalled, 46. 
Oxen, who drives fat, 147. 
Oxlips and the nodding violet, 34. 
Oyster, then the world's mine, 243. 
Oysters not good without an r in the 
month, 230. 

Pack, as a huntsman his, 244. 
Pageant history, 244. 

insubstantial, 10. 
Paid, well, that is satisfied, 244. 
Pain, a stranger yet to, 244. 

die of a rose in aromatic, 116. 

sweet is pleasure after, 256. 

the labour we delight in phy- 
sics, 244. 

tender for another's, 244. 

to sigh yet feel no, 42. 
Paine, Condorcet filtered, 123. 
Pains, pleasure in poetic, 244. 
Paint meadows with delight, 103. 

the lily, 137. 

them best, who feel them most, 
244. 
Painted Jove, 245. 
Painter, flattering, 122. 
Painting, more than, can express, 

245. 
Palace and a prison, 63. 
Palaces, gorgeous, 10. 
Pale cast of thought, 54. 

faced moon, 63. 

his uneffectual fire, 151. 

moon-lio-ht, 142. 



Pale, prithee, why so, 245. 

unripened beauties, 245. 
Palinurus nodded, 245. 
Palm, bear the, 38. 

itching, 194. 

like some tall, 245. 
Palmy state of Rome, 170. 
Palpable, clothing the, 86. 

hit, 245. 

obscure, 245. 
Palsied eld, 245. 
Palter in a double sense, 127. 
Pangs of despised love, 53. 

of guilty power, 245. 
Panjandrum, the grand, 246. 
Pansies for thoughts, 246. 
Pantaloon, slippered, 8. 
Panting time, 317. 
Paper bullets of the brain, 60. 

mill, 246. 
Paradise, Fools', 155. 

of fools, 155. 

opening, 89. 
Paradisaical pleasures, 97. 
Parallel, none but himself can be his, 

246. 
Parchment undo a man, 246. 
Pard, bearded like the, 8. 
Pardon, they ne'er, w^ho wrong, 156. 
Pardons, the offender never, 156 (n. ) 
Parent of good, 246. 
Parents passed into the skies, 246. 
Parish church, way to, 246. 
Parley with the foe, 112. 
Parole douce, 258 (note). 
Parritch, the healsome, 246. 
Parson bemused in beer, 247. 

there goes the, 246. 
Partake the gale, 35. 
Parthenon, earth proudly wears the, 

128. 
Partial evil, universal and good, 12. 
Parting is such sweet sorrow, 247. 
'Partington's, Mrs., spirit was up, 

247. 
Partitions, thin, 216 (note), 247. 
Parts, one man plays many, 304. 

of one stupendous whole, 247. 
Party, gave up to, w T hat was meant 

for mankind, 247. 
Pascal, eat the, 252. 



IXDEX. 



389 



Passage of an angel's tear, 247. 
Passages that lead to nothing, 247. 
Passeth show, 247. 
Passing fair, is she not, 142. 
rich, 157. 
strange, 248. 
thought, 248. 
Passion, govern my, 172. 
ruling, 109. 
tear, to tatters, 127. 
till our, dies, 19. 
Passion's slave, 254. 
Past all surgery, 248. 
Pastors, ungracious, 104. 
Pastures and fresh woods, 158. 

lie down in green, 172. 
Patches, a king of shreds and, 248. 
Pate, you beat your, 248. 
Path of dalliance, 104. 
Paths lead to woman's love, 255. 

of glory lead to grave, 164. 

of joy and woe, 248. 

of peace, 248. 
Patience and. sorrow strove, 248. 

office to speak, 248. 

on a monument, 77. 

preacheth, 248. 

wanted a nightingale, 248. 
Patient merit, o3. 

minister to himself, 249. 

though sorely tried, 229. 
Patines of bright gold, 79. 
Patriot of the "world, 249. 
Patriot's boast, 53. 
Pause, an awful, 97. 

not to dream of future, 249. 
Pavement of heads and faces, 284. 

riches of heaven's, 274. 
Pay, if. I can't, 109. 
Peace, all her paths are, 248. 

and rest can never dwell, 249. 

carry gentle, 13. 

first in, 249. 

hath her victories, 249. 

in the world, 249. 

in, there's nothing - , 49. 

in thy right hand, 13. 

nor ease the heart, 249. 

piping time of, 249. 

slept in, 249. 

soft phrase of, 279. 



Peace, solitude and calls it, 249. 
to be found in world, 249. 
unto the wicked, 250. 
Pealing anthem, 11. 
Pearl, quarrelets of, 250. 

sowed the earth with orient, 250. 
threw away, 250. 
Pearls at random strung, 250. 
before swine, 250. 
did grow, how, 250. 
who search for, 134. 
Peas into their shoes, 250. 
Peasantry, country's pride, 61. 
Pebbles, children gathering, 82. 
Peep at such a world, 256. 

hills, o'er hills, 14. 
Pelops' line, 250. 
Pelting of this pitiless storm, 250. 
Pen, from an angel's wing, 250. 
glorious by my, 145. 
man who has trail'd, 251. 
mightier than the sword, 251. 
of a ready writer, 251. 
product of a scoffer's, 250. 
Penalties of idleness, 74. 
Pence, eternal want of, 324. 
Pendulum, man, thou, 251. 
Penitent libertine, 251. 
Pens a stanza, 247. 
Pensioner of an hour, 185. 
Pensive public, 251. 
Pent, long in city, 209. 
Pentameter, falling in melody, 251. 
People here a beast of burden slow, 
251. 
thy, shall be my, 251. 
People's right maintain, 251. 

voice, 323. 
Peppered, who, the highest, 251. 
Perched upon a bust of Pallas, 2d2. 
; Perdition catch my soul, 76. 
| Perfect woman, 252. 
J Perfume on the violet, 137. 
1 Perfumes of Arabia, 23. 
\ Peri at the gate, 252. 
| Perilous shot, 252. 
| Perjuria ridet amantium, 196. 
■ Perjuries, lovers', 252. 
Persian's heaven, 252. 
Persuaded, let every man be, 252. 
I Persuasion, ripened into faith, 143. 



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INDEX. 



Persons, no respect of, 252. 
Persuasive sound, 252. 
Perverts the prophets, 252. 
Petard, enginer hoist with, 132. 
Petition me no petitions, 252. 
Petticoat, feet beneath her, 56 (note), 
149. 

tempestuous, 314. 
Petty pace, 70. 
Phalanx, in perfect, 121. 
Phantasma, like a, 3. 
Phantoms of hope, 98. 
Pharaoh a saucy rascal, 252. 
Philip and Mary, on a shilling, 16. 

Sparow, 301. 
Philistines be upon thee, 252. 
Philosopher that could endure the 

toothache, 253. 
Philosophy, adversity's sweet milk, 6. 

deep, 26. 

divine, 21. 

dreamt of in your, 128. 

false, and vain wisdom, 144. 

hast any, in thee, 253. 

lights of mild, 69. 

proud, 187. 

search of deep, 26. 

teaching by examples, 253. 

triumphs over evils, 261. 
Phoebus 'gins to rise, 253. 

what a name, 253. 
Phosphor, sweet, 253. 
Phyllis, neat-handed, 253. 
Physic, take, pomp, 253. 

to the dogs, 120. 
Physician, heal thyself, 253. 

is there no, 34. 
Pia mater, womb of, 253. 
Picninnies, 246. 

Picture, look here upon this, 95. 
Pictures, eyes make, 140. 

of silver, 22. 
Piece, faultless to see, 254. 
Pierian spring, 123. 
Pig in a poke, 254. 
Pigmies are pigmies still, 254. 
Pigmy body fretted to decay, 85. 
Pigs, an't please the, 254. 

squeak, as naturally as, 48. 
Pikestaff, plain as, 255. 
Pilgrim shrines, 112. 



Pillar of state, 29. 

Pilot of the Galilean lake, 254. 

Pin a day, 254. 

mould a, 298. 
Pinch, a lean-faced villain, 254. 
Pindar's style, 334. 
Pine with fear and sorrow, 72. 
Pines, silent sea of, 254. 
Pink of courtesy, 96. 
Pin's fee, set my life at a, 254. 
Pinto, thou liar of the first magni- 
tude, 149. 
Piny mountain, 103. 
Pipe for fortune's finger, 254. 
Pipes, turning again toward childish 

treble, 8. 
Piping time of peace, 249. 
Pit, monster of the, 230. 
Pitch, he that toucheth, 254. 

my moving tent, 107. 
Pitcher be broken, 59. 
Pitiful, 'twas wondrous, 248. 
Pity degree to love, 255 (note). 

gave ere charity began, 254. 

he hath a tear for, 76. 

leaf of, 254. 

melts the mind to love, 255. 

of it, I ago, 254 . 

swells the tide of love, 255. 

the sorrows of a poor old man, 
255. 

then embrace, 132. 

'tis, 'tis true, 215. 
Pity's akin to love, 255. 

the straightest, 255. 
Place dignified by doer's deed, 110. 

jolly, in times of old, 255. 

know him any more, 255. 

that has known him, 255 (note). 

where the tree falleth, 255. 
Places, lines in pleasant, 255. 

strange, crammed, 48. 

that eye of Heaven visits, 259. 
Plagiare among authors, 255. 
Plague o' both your houses, 255. 

of all cowards, 96. 

of sighing, 48. 

of such backing, 33. 
Plain as a pike-staff, 255. 

tale, 255. 

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INDEX. 



391 



Plain, yellow, 30. 
Plan, the simple, 168. 
Planet, under a rhyming, 56. 
Plant that most with cutting grows, 

210. 
Plato, thou reasonest well, 256. 
Play, as good as a, 27. 
the woman, 59. 
to you, 'tis death to us, 110. 
Play'd a tiger, 256. 
Played familiar, 242. 

with me, 256. 
Player that struts, 70. 
Play-place of our early days, 256. 
Play's the thing, 73. 
Plays such fantastic tricks, 18. 
Pleasant-smiling cheek, 256. 
Pleasant to peep at such a world, 256, 

to see one's name in print, 55. 
Pleasantness, ways of, 248. 
Pleased he knows not why, 256. 
to the last, 99. 
with a rattle, 38. 
Pleasing dreams, 122. 
Pleasure after pain, 256. 
all his, praise, 260. 
at the helm, 256. 
in poetic pains, 244. 
in the pathless woods, 256. 
mixed reason with, 257. 
she was bent on, 257. 
that comes unlook'd for, 256. 
to be drunk, 257. 
to frown at, 160. 
Pleasures are like poppies, 257. 
doubling his, 17. 
of the poor, 330. 
of the present day, 229. 
that to verse belong, 65. 
Pleiades, the sweet influences of, 257. 
Plentiful lack of wit, 257. 
Plenty o'er a smiling land, 139. 
Plodders, continual, 93. 
Plough along the mountain side, 77. 
Plover, muskets aimed at, 257. 
Plowshares, swords into, 257. 
Pluck bright honour, 63. 
from the memory, 20. 
the flower safety, 105. 
up drowned honour, 63. 
Plucked his Grown, 257. 



Plummet, sounded deeper than, 111, 

257. 
Pluto's cheek, 78. 
Poesy, thou sweet'st content, 257. 

of a ring, 63. 
Poet soaring in the high region of 
his fancy, 162. 
they had no, 79. 
Poetic fields, 85. 
nook, 64. 

pains, a pleasure in, 244. 
Poetical, 1 would the gods had made 

thee, 257. 
Poetry, cradled into, 258. 

the language of the gods, 235. 
Pcetus, brave, 258. 
Poet's eye in a fine frenzy, 10. 
Poets are all who love, 258, 
who made us heirs, 50. 
Point a moral, 5. 

put too fine a, 258. 
swim to yonder, 2. 
Poison for the age's tooth, 258. 
Poisoned chalice, 52. 
Pole, from Indus to the, 253. 
so tall to reach the, 228. 
true as the needle to the, 116. 
Politeness costs nothing, 258. 
Ponderous axes rung, 245. 
Pool, green mantle of standing, 258. 
Poor always ye have, 258. 
and content, 259. 
grind the faces of the, 172. 
indeed, 168. 
laws grind the, 274. 
make no new friends, 258. 
naked wretches, 250. 
pleasures of the, 330. 
simple annals of the, 20. 
thou found'st me, 259. 
Pope of Rome, more than the, 259. 
Poppies, pleasures are like, 257. 
Poppy nor mandragora, 259. 
Populous city pent, 209 (note). 
Porcelain clay of human kind, 85. 
Porpentine, like quills upon the fret- 
ful, 126. 
Port for men, 60. 

to imperial Tokay, 259. 
Portion, best, of a good man's life, 4. 
of that around me, 187. 



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INDEX. 



Ports and happy havens, 259. 
Post of honour, private station, 259. 
Posteriors of this day, 106. 
Pot, death in the, 109. 
Potations, pottle deep, 259. 
Potent, grave, and reverend seigni- 
ors, 259. 
Potte, ply the, 123. 
Poverty, chill of, 259. 

nor riches, 164. 

not my will, consents, 259. 

slow rises worth, depressed by, 
296. 

steeped me in, 259. 

the urn of, 259. 
Powder, food for, 154. 
Power, dissevering, 259. 

forty-parson, 157. 

like desolating pestilence, 260. 

of grace, 169. 

of thought, 260. 

take, who have the, 168. 

the giftie gie us, 286. 
Powers that be, 260. 

that work for thee, 13. 
Practise to deceive, 326. 
Prague's proud arch, 151. 
Praise, all his pleasure, 260. 

damn with faint, 104. 

empty, 260 (note). 

is the best diet, 260. 

it, or blame it too much, 260. 

of, a mere glutton, 265. 

solid pudding against empty, 
260. 

to be dispraised were no, 118. 

undeserved, 260. 

were none to, 16. 
Praising what is lost, 260. 
Pray, remained to, 155. 
Prayer, all his business, 260. 

ardent, opens heaven, 260. 

homes of silent, 181. 

is the burden of a sigh, 260. 

the soul's sincere desire, 261. 

the imperfect offices of, 261. 

wherever God erects a house of, 
261. 
Prayeth well, he who loveth, 261. 
Preached as never to preach again, 
261. 



Preached to death, 328. 
Preaching simple Christ, 265. 
Precept upon precept, 261. 
Precious bane, 261. 

jewel in his head, 5. 

ointment, good name is better 
than, 167. 
Prefers fortune's ice, 15. 
Preparation, dreadful note of, 25. 
Present evils, 261. 

fears, 261. 
Presentment, counterfeit, 95. 
Press not a falling man, 261. 

the people's right maintain, 251. 
Pretty kind of — sort of thing, 261. 
Prevaricate, thou dost, 189. 
Prey at fortune, 261. 
Priam's curtain, 261. 
Pricking of my thumbs, 262. 

on the plaine, 262. 
Pricks, kick against the, 262. 
Pride and haughtiness of soul, 262. 

blend our pleasure or, 262. 

fell with my fortunes, 157. 

goeth before destruction, 114. 

in their port, 112. 

is still aiming, 18. 

pomp, of glorious war, 262. 

reasoning, 18. 

still aiming at the blest abodes, 
18. 

that apes humility, 105. 

that licks the dust, 262. 

that perished in his, 77. 

the vice of fools, 262. 
Priestcraft never owns its juggles, 

262. 
Priests, tapers, temples, 262. 
Primrose by a river's brim, 262. 

path of dalliance, 104. 

sweet as the, 262. 
Prince can make a belted knight, 
262. 

of Darkness is a gentleman, 162. 
Princedoms, Virtues, Powers, 262. 
Princes like heavenly bodies, 327. 
Princes' favours, 144. 
Principles with times, 263. 
Prior, what once was Matthew, 58. 
Prison, stone walls do not a, make,69. 
Privilege of being ugly, 263. 



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393 



Privileged beyond the common walk, 

75. 
Process of the suns, 9. 
Procrastination, thief of time, 263. 
Prodigal's favourite, 148. 
Product of a scoffer's pen, 250. 
Profaned the God-given strength, 

166. 
Profession, everv man a debtor to his, 

110. 
Profit where is no pleasure, 263. 
Progeny of learning, 263. 
Progress of the soul to God, 263. 
Progressive virtue, 23. 
Prohibited degrees of kin, 263. 
Prologues, happy, 263. 
Promise, keep the word of, 127. 

of early days. 63. 

to his loss. 263. 
Promotion, sweat for, 263. 
Proof, °:ive me the ocular, 263. 
Proofs of Holy Writ, 91. 
Proper study of mankind, 263. 
Property has its duties, 264. 
Prophet not without honour, 264. 
Prophetic ray, 264. 

soul, my, 264. 
Prophets, perverts the, 252. 
Proportion, curtailed of fair, 264. 

small, just beauties see, 206. 
Proprietv, frights the isle from her, 

44. 
Propriumhumaniingenii,156(note). 
Prose run mad. 264. 
Prose-writers, 264. 
Prosper, surer to, 264. 
Prosperity, a jest's, 264. 

all sorts of, 264. 

assured us, 264. 
Proteus rising from the sea, 98. 
Proud me no proucls, 252 (mote). 

so witty, 330. 

to importune, 63. 

waves be stayed, 264. 
Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for 

silk, 264. 
Prove all things, 12. 
Proverb and a by-word, 264. 
Proverbed with grandsire phrase, 

169. 
Providence alone secures, 264. 



Providence, behind a frowning, 265. 

foreknowledge, 131. 

their guide, 265. 
Prudes for proctors, 265. 
Prunello, leather or, 265. 
Psalms, purloins the, 252. 
Public, a great baby, 32. 

credit, dead corpse of, 265. 

pensive, 251. 
Pudding, solid, against eniptv praise, 

260. 
Puff of a dunce, 265. 
Puking, mewling and, 8. 
Pulpiter, O most gentle, 265 (note ). 
Pulpiteer, a heated, 265. 
Pulpits and Sundayes, 293. 
Punishment gTeater than I can bear, 

265. 
Pun-provoking thvme, 265. 
Pupil of the eye, 139. 
Pure, all things pure to the, 265. 

and eloquent blood, 51. 

by being purely shone upon, 265. 

in thought as angels, 167. 
Purge, and leave sack, 265. 
Puritans,the, hated bear-baiting,266. 
Purloins the Psalms, 252. 
Purple light of love, 52. 
Purpose linn, 84. 

infirm of, 266. 

shake my fell, 90. 
Purse, put money in thy, 266. 

who steals my, 168. 
Pursue the triumph, 35. 
Push on, keep moving, 266. 
Pyramid that bears his name, 266. 
Pyramids in vales, 254. 
Pyrrhic dance, 266. 

Quaff immortality, 89. 
Quality, a taste of your, 267. 
Quarrelers of pearl, 250. 
Quarrel, entrance to, 46. 

hath his, just, 61. 

in a straw, 267. 

is a pretty quarrel, 267. 

sudden and quick in, 8. 
Quarrels interpose, they who in, 267. 
Quarry of these murdered deer, 267. 
Queen Dido, 267. 

}Iab, 6. 



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INDEX. 



Quern Di diligunt, 328. 
Questionable shape, 289. 
Quick bright things, 63. 
Quickly, well it were done, 29. 
Quiet sense of something- lost, 267. 

to quick bosoms, 267. 
Quietus make with a bare bodkin, 53. 
Quill from angel's wing, 250 (note). 
Quills upon the fretful porpentine, 

126. 
Quintilian stare, 267. 
Quips and cranks, 267. 

and sentences, 60. 
Quis mihi tribuat, 5. 
Quiver, the devil hath not in his, 115. 
Quoth the raven, Never more, 238. 
Quum autem sublatus fuerit, 292. 

Rabelais' easy chair, 74. 
Race, forget the human, 113. 

is run, I bow to that whose, 268. 

not to the swift, 37. 

of other days, 107. 

of politicians, 49. 

rear my dusky, 125. 
Rachel weeping for her children, 82. 
Rack of a too easy chair, 74. 

of this rough world, 163. 
Radiant light, 284. 
Radish, forked, 156. 
Rage of the vulture, 217. 
Raggedness, windowed, 250. 
Rags, the man forgets not in, 268. 
Rail on the Lord's anointed, 20. 
Railed on Lady Fortune, 157. 
Rain from heaven droppeth, 268. 
Rainbow to storms of life, 268. 
Rake among scholars, 268. 

woman is at heart a, 136. 
Ralph to Cynthia howls, 268. 
Rank is but the guinea's stamp, 269. 
Rapt seraph that adores, 269. 
Rare, neither rich nor, 15. 
Rarity of Christian charity, 269. 
Rascals naked through the world, 

269. 
Rat, 1 smell a, 189. 
Rather than be less, 269. 
Ratiocination, pay by, 118. 
Rattle, pleased with a, 38. 
Ravelled sleave of care, 34. 



Raven-down of darkness, 105. 
Ravens, He that feedeth the, 6. 
Raw in fields, 269. 
Razors, cried, 269. 
Razure of oblivion, 269. 
Read Homer once, 269. 

mark, learn, 269. 

to doubt, 56. 
Reading maketh a full man, 270. 

what they never wrote, 270. 
Ready writer, 251. 
Real Simon Pure, 293. 
Realm, youth of the, 246. 
Reap, that shall he also, 300. 
Reaping something new, 65. 
Reason, a woman's, 270. 

for my rhyme, 270. 

godlike, 117. 

is staggered, 270. 

no, ask, 270. 

noble and most sovereign, 44. 

nor rhyme, 271. 

on compulsion, 48. 

or rhyme, 270. 

prisoner, takes the, 271. 

the card, 271. 

the feast of, 59. 

the worse appear the better, 46. 

why, 270. 

with pleasure mixed, 257. 
Reason's whole pleasure, 271. 
Rebels from principles, 271. 
Rebuke, open, 271. 
Reck the rede, may you better, 271. 
Recks not his own rede, 104. 
Reckoning dreadful, 35. 
Recorded time, 70. 
Recorders, flutes and soft, 121. 
Recording angel, 17. 
Red spirits and gray, 48. 
R.ede, may you better reck the, 271. 
Reed, bruised, not break, 65. 
Reel to and fro, 124. 
| Reflection, cool, 271. 
Reform defective laws, 271. 

it altogether, 271. 
Reformation, some new, 271. 
Regalities gilded masks, 163. 
Regent of love-rhymes, 104. 
Reign in Hell, better to, 15. 
Relic of departed worth, 271. 



INDEX. 



395 



Religion blushing, 16. 

of his wonder made, 331. 
Reluctant feet, standing with, 271. 
Rem, facias rem, 163 (note). 
Remainder biscuit, 48. 
Remedies oft in ourselves do lie, 271. 
Remedy is worse than the disease, 
271,272. 

things without all, 271. 
Remember, I, 189. 

Lot's wife, 271. 

thy Creator, 97. 
Remembered, I've been so long, 272. 

kisses, 111. 
Remnant of uneasy light, 272. 
Remorsefully regarded through his 

tears, 272. 
Remote from man, 260. 

unfriended, 272. 
Remove, drags at each, 122. 
Removes, three as bad as fire, 150. 
Render to all their dues, 124. 
Repent at leisure, 222. 
Repentance, long years of, 77. 

rears her snaky crest, 272. 

to give, 26. 
Report me and my cause aright, 272. 
Reputation, bubble, 8. 

dies, 272. 

in the cannon's mouth, 8. 
Reserve thy judgment, 46. 
Resignation slopes the way, 272. 
Resolution, native hue of, 54. 
Resolved to ruin, 272. 
Resonant steam eagles, 272. 
Respect, adore you, everything but 
love, 272. 

makes calamity, 53. 

upon the world, 272. 
Respectable, what do you mean by, 

273. 
Rest, and be thankful, 273. 

her soul, she is dead, 273. 

she found no, 273. 
Resteth, naught, 273. 
Restore the dead, 285. 
Retired leisure, 273. 
Retirement urges sweet return, 273. 
Retort courteous, 273. 
Revelry by night, 140. 

midnight shout and, 273. 



Revenge is virtue, 82. 
Reverence, to do him, 68. 
Reveries so airy, 65. 
Reward of thin owen value, 273. 

of virtue, 273. 
Rhyme, lofty, 66. 

nor reason, 270, 271. 

or reason, 270. 

silver bells of, 293. 

the rudder is of verses, 322. 
Rialto, in the, 221. 
Riband in the cap of youth, 71. 
Ribbon bound, 89, 164. 
Ribs of death, 110. 
Rich and rare, 274. 

gifts wax poor, 274. 

man enter the kingdom, 70. 

men rule the law, 274. 

not gaudy, 21. 

neither, nor rare, 15. 

soils to be weeded, 274. 

with spoils of nature, 274 (note). 

with the spoils of time, 274. 
Riches grow in hell, 261. 

of Heaven's pavement, 274. 
Riddle of the world, 75. 
Rides in the whirlwind, 274. 

upon the storm, 165. 
Ridicule test of truth, 274. 
Rigged with curses dark, 66. 
Right divine of kings, 275. 

I see the, and approve it, 274. 

man in the right place, 275. 
Righteous forsaken, 275. 

overmuch, 275. 
Righteousness and peace, 275. 

exalteth a nation, 275. 
Ring in the Christ that is to be, 275. 

out wild bells, 275. 
Ringing grooves of change, 75. 
Rip van Winkle, 275. 
Ripe and ripe, 275. 
Ripest fruit first falls, 160. 
Rise still with an appetite, 275. 
Rival all but Shakespeare's name, 

289. 
River at my garden's end, 158. 

of his thoughts, 276. 
Rivets, hammers closing, 25, 85. 
Rivulet of text, 276. 
Road, a rough, a weary, 276. 



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INDEX. 



Road to infernal life, 276. 
Roads to town, fifty, <276. 
Roar gently as any sucking dove, 

121. 
Roaring lion, walketh about as a, 5. 
Robbed, he that is, 276. 

that smiles, 276. 
Robbing Peter, he paid Paul, 276. 
Robes and furred gowns, 276. 

loosely flowing, 5. 
Rock surrounded coast, 334. 

the cradle of reposing age, 138. 

this, shall fly from its firm base, 
88. 
Rocket, rose like a, 276. 
Rocking of the battlements, 164. 
Rod in pickle, 276. 

of empire, 131. 

of iron, 277. 

spare the, 81. 

spareth bis, 81 (note). 
Rode the six hundred, 63. 
Roderick, a friend to, 277. 
Rogue, every inch not fool is, 154. 
Rogues fall out, 277. 

in buckram, 65. 
Roll darkling down, 147. 

of common men, 277. 

on, thou ocean, 277. 
Rolls of jN oah's ark, 24. 
Roman fame, above all, 1. 

holiday, 35. 

noblest, 277. 

senate long debate, 277. 

than such a, 37, 119. 
Romans call it stoicism, 262. 

countrymen, and lovers, 73. 

last of all, the, 277. 

were like brothers, 314. 
Rome can pardon sins, 277. 

falls, falls the world, 87. 

more than the Pope of, 259. 

palmy state of, 170. 

when at, do as Romans do, 277. 

when they are at, 278. 
Romeo, wherefore art thou, 278. 
Roof fretted with golden fire, 151. 
Room, ample, and verge enough, 16. 

no wit for so much, 177. 
Root'of all evil, 136. 

of the matter, 278. 



! Root that takes the reason prisoner, 
271. 

the axe is laid to the, 31. 
! Rooted sorrow, 20. 
Rose, blossom as the, 113. 

by any other name, 278. 

happy is the, distilled, 129. 

in aromatic pain, 116. 

is fairest, 278. 

is red, 278. 

lippes red as, 278. 

of youth, 335. 

within herself, 42. 
Rosebuds, crown ourselves with, 99. 

gather ye, 162. 
Rosemary for remembrance, 246. 
Roses from your cheek, 78. 

in December, 92. 

sleep in beds of, 296. 

the scent of the, 278. 
Ross, the Man of, 278. 
Rot and rot, 275. 
Rotten in Denmark, 113. 
Rough as nutmeg-graters, 278. 
Rough-hew them how we will, 119. 
Round unvarnished tale, 278. 
Rout upon rout, 91. 
Rowland for an Oliver, 278. 
Roy, le premier qui fut, 308 (note). 
Rubies, where the, grew, 279. 

price of wisdom is above, 279. 
Ruddy drops, dear as, 108. 
Rude am 1 in my speech, 279. 

forefathers of the hamlet, 279. 

militia, 269. 
Ruffles when wanting a shirt, 279. 
Ruin lovely in death, 255. 

or to rule the state, 272. 

upon ruin, 91. 
Ruin's ploughshare, 279. 
Rule, Britannia, 64. 

them with a rod of iron, 277. 

the good old, 168. 
Ruler of the land, 199. • 
Rules him, never shows she, 279. 
Ruling passion conquers reason, 248. 

passion strong in death, 109. 
Rumination, often, 279. 
Run amuck, 279. 

he may, that readeth, 279. 
Runs, he that, may read, 280. 



INDEX. 



397 



Runs my dream, 280. 

the'round of lite, 280. 
Rupert of debate, 280. 
Rural sights, 280. 
Russia, a ni^ht in, 280. 
Rustic moralist, 280. 

tling in unpaid-for silk, 264, 

Sabbath, break, for gain, 281. 

hail. 281. 
Sack, intolerable deal of, 281. 

leave. 265. 

dee, turn delight into a, 112. 
Sad as angels, 17. 
by fits, 151. 

stones of the death of kings, 281. 
Sadder and a wiser ma::. 281. 

md, safe find. 147. 
Safely, pluck this flower. 1 3. 
Sages look'd to Egypt. 281. 
Sail, set every threadbare, 281. 
Sailing on obscene wings, 29. 
Saint in crape and lawn, 76. 

sustained it, 281. 

'tw : old provoke a, 281. 
St. John mingles with my bowl, 59. 
Saints, his soul is with the, 125. 

who taught, 282. 
Sally, pretty, 282. 
Salt ofthe earth, 128. 
Salvation, no relish of, 282. 
Samaritan, the good, 167. 
Samphire, one that gathers, 282. 
Samson, the Philistines be upon 

thee. 252. 
Sand, golden, 6. 
Sands of time, 156. 
Sang, it may turn out a, 282. 
Sans teeth, sans eyes, 9. 
Sapphire blaze, 282. 
Sappho, loved and sung, 171, 
Sapping a solemn creed, 98. 
Satan exalted sat. 33. 

finds some mischief, 282. 

get thee behind me, 163. 

s : .all him now, 282. 
Satanic school, 282. 
Satire, for pointed, 283. 

has always shone, 283. 

in lisgoise, '260. 

or sense, 67. 



Satire should wound with a touch, 

283. 
Satire's my weapon, 279. 
Sauce for a goose, 283. 
Saucy doubts, 68. 

Saul and Jonathan were lovely, 110. 
Savage, wild in woods the noble, 158. 

woman, 125. 
Saw those that saw the queen, 283. 

ye my wee thing, 283. 
Sawe, old, 283. 

Saws, wise, and modern instances, 8. 
Saxon shilling, 283. 
Scabbard, leaped from, 7. 
Scandal about Queen Elizabeth, 283. 
Scandalous and poor, 226. 
"Scapes, hair-breadth, 2. 
Scars, he jests at, 283. 
Scent ofthe roses, 278. 

the morning air, 101. 
Scents the evening gale, 45. 
Sceptre, a barren, in my gripe, 35. 
Schemes, best laid, of mice, 283. 
Scholar, a ripe, and good one, 142. 

among rakes, 268. 

gentleman and, 162. 
Schoolboy, the whining, 8. 
Schoolboys at warning, 74. 
Schoolmaster abroad, 284. 
Science, falsely so called, 284. 

glare of false, 107. 

O star-eyed, 284. 
| Scio's rocky isle, 50. 
Scoff, fools who came to, 155. 
Scoffer's pen, 250. 
Score and tally, 246. 
Scorn delights, 145. 

fixed figure for the time of, 150. 

he will laugh thee to, 284. 

laughed his word to, 66. 

looks beautiful, 19. 
Scotch understanding, get joke into, 

310. 
Scotched the snake, 284. 
Scotia's food, 246. 

Scotland, land of Calvin, oat cakes, 
and sulphur, 201. 

stands, where it did, 304. 
Scourge, inexorably, 284. 
Scraps of learning dote, 284. 

stolen the, 148. 



398 



INDEX. 



Screw your courage, 95. 
Scribble for daily bread, 284. 

not for pudding, 284. 
Scripture, the devil can cite, 115. 
Scrofulous French novel, 284. 
Scylla, your father, 76. 
'Sdeath 111 print it, 284. 
Sea, alone, alone, on a wide, 14. 

first gem of the, 127. 

glad waters of the dark blue,285. 

in the flat, sunk, 284. 

into that silent, 284. 

like ships that have gone down 
at, 118. 

lost far out at, 285. 

of jet, 322. 

of pines, 254. 

of troubles, 38. 

of upturned faces, 284. 

our heritage, the, 285. 

restore the dead, thou, 285. 

rough, rude, 198. 

swelling of the voiceful, 50. 

the dark blue, 285. 

the open, 53. 

was roaring, 104, 
Sea-change, suffer a, 54. 
Sea-maid's music, 285. 
Sea's a thief, 90. 
Seals of love, 285. 
Search of deep philosophy, 26. 
Seas incarnadine, 285. 
Season, to everything a, 285. 
Seasoned timber, 285. 
Seasons for thine own, Death,109. 

return, with the year, 106. 
Seat, ascend to our native, 113. 
Seated heart, 285. 
Seats, with, beneath the hawthorn 

shade, 7. 
Second childishness, 8. 

thought, 286. 

thoughts, 286. 
Secret of a weed's plain heart, 286. 

things belong unto the Lord, 286. 
Secrets of my prison house, 286. 
Sect, slave to no, 286. 
Sedge, kiss to every, 132. 
See my lips tremble, 286. 

oursels as ithers see us, 286. 

the conquering hero, 286. 



See through a glass darkly, 164. 

two dull lines, 2. 

with half-shut eyes, 87. 
Seed begging bread, 275. 
Seeds of time, 286. 
Seek, and ye shall find, 27. 
Seems, madam, I know not, 286. 
Seigniors, grave, and reverend, 259. 
Seldom he smiles, 287. 

shall she hear a tale, 287. 
Self, that dallying theme, 287. 
Self-approving hour, one, C 2S. 
Self-dispraise, luxury in, 302. 
Self-slaughter, canon 'gainst, 71. 
Sell, made to, 287. 
Sempronius, we'll do more, 287. 
Senators of mighty woods, 172, 287. 
Sensations felt in the blood, 51. 
Sense, fruit of, 160. 

good, 168. 

joys of, 271. 

sound an echo to the, 11. 

want of decency is want of, 110. 
Senses, steep in forgetfulness, 156. 
Sensibility to love, 213. 
Sentence, he mouths a, 101. 
Sentinel stars, 66. 
Sentinels fixed, 25. 
Sentries, untroubled, 287. 
Sermon, perhaps turn out a, 282. 

who flies a, 112. 
Sermons in stones, 5. 
Serpent, like Aaron's, 222. 

more of, than dove, 287. 

sting thee twice, 287. 

trail of the, 287. 
Serpents, be ye wise as, 121. 
Servant makes drudgery divine, 123. 
Service, done the state some, 287. 

sweat for duty, 263. 
Servile to skyey influences, 287. 
Servitude, base laws of, 158. 
Servi peregrini, 295 (note.) 
Set imprisoned wranglers free, 288. 

thine house in order, 288. 
Settle's numbers, lived in, 288. 
Seven hours to law, 288. 
Severn to the narrow seas, 30. 
Sex to the last, 288. 
Shade, boundless contiguity of, 288. 
half in .288. 



INDEX. 



399 



Shade hunter and the deer, 288. 

more welcome, 288. 

ofthat which once was °reat,288. 

softening into shade, 289. 

that follows wealth, 159. 
Shadow, double swan and, 289. 

proves the substance, 133. 
Shadowed livery, 67. 
Shadows, come like, 88. 

coming- events cast, 89. 

on the wall, 289. 

our fatal, 4. 

we pursue, 289. 
Shadwell never deviates into sense, 

289. 
Shaft at random sent, 289. 

that made him die, 126. 
Shake hands with the king-, 289. 

my fell purpose, 90. 

thy gory locks, 168. 
Shaken, when taken, to be well, 289. 
Shakespeare, Fancy's child, 324. 

on whose forehead, 330. 

rise, 39. 
Shakespeare's magic, 289. 

name, rival all but, 289. 
Shale, all n'is worth a nutte, 290. 
Shall I, wasting in despair, 114. 
Shallow brooks and rivers, 57, 

streams, 134. 
Shame, an erring sister's, 134. 

the fools, 284. 
Shames, thousand innocent, 21. 
Shape, execrable, 137. 

such a questionable, 289. 

take any, but that, 289. 
Shared its shelter, 299. 
Sharper than a serpent's tooth, 81. 
Shatter the vase, 278. 
Shave, not think they'd, 287. 
She drew an angel down, 290. 

is to blame, 290. 

never told her love, 77. 

the fair, the chaste, 321. 

was a form of life. 289. 

will, she will, if, 319, 329. 
Shears, abhorred, 145. 
Sheeted dead, 170. 
Shell, convolutions of a, 80. 

music slumbers in the, 29 

take ye each, 312. 



She's beautiful, and to be wooed, 40, 

pretty to walk with, 290. 
Shelter, shared its, 290 
Shepherd tells his tale, 136, 
Shepherd's boy piping, 290. 
Sheridan, broke the die in moulding, 

116. 
Shielded scutcheon, 290. 
Shikspur, who wrote it, 290. 
Shilling, Philip and Mary on a, 16. 
Shining hour, 42. 
Ship, idle as a painted, 190. 

that ever scuttled, 290. 
Ships dim-discovered, 290. 

that have gone down atsea,1l8. 

that sailed for sunny isles, 310. 
Shirt and a half in my company, 96. 

sending ruffles when wanting a, 
279. 
Shock, sink beneath the, 290. 
Shoe has power to wound, 291. 

pinches, 291. 
Shoot folly as it flies, 153. 

to teach the young idea how to, 
112. 
Shore, dull, tame, 124. 

wild and wil lowed, 291. 
Short measures, in, life perfect, 297. 
Shot heard round the world, 131. 

my arrow o'er the house, 25. 

out of an elder gun, 252. 

perilous, 252. 
Should auld acquaintance, 30. 
Shouldered his crutch, 99. 
Shout tore hell's concave, 75. 
Show a driveller and a, 121. 

his eyes, 88. 

world is all a fleeting, 291. 
Showed how fields were won, 99. 
Shreds and patches, king of, 248. 
Shrewsbury clock, fought by, 291. 
Shrine of the mighty, 291. 
Shrines to no code or creed, 112. 
Shuffled off this mortal coil, 38. 
Shunnest the noise of folly, 47. 
Shut, shut the door, 291. 

the gates of mercy, 291. 
Sicklied o'er with pale cast of thought, 

54. 
Sickness, full of woes, 290. 
Sidneian showers 311. 



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INDEX. 



Sidney, warbler of poetic prose,291. 

Sidney's sister, 106. 

Siege to scorn, 34. 

Sign from Indus to Pole, 258. 

no more, ladies, 291. 

passing tribute of a, 292. 

yet feel no pain, 42. 
Sighed, and looked again, 292. 

and looked unutterable things, 
292. 
Sighing and grief, 48. 

like furnace, 8. 
Sighs and cries by nature grow on 

pain, 152. 
Sight, loved not at first, 292. 

out of, out of mind, 292. 
Sign, dies and makes no, 117. 
Silence gives consent, 292. 

herald of joy, 292. 

in love, 'bewrays more woe, 43. 

is a virtue, 292. 

is gold, 301. 

that dreadful bell, 44. 

wings of, 105. 

ye wolves, 269. 
Silent all three went in, 292. 

as the moon, 74. 

cataracts, 73. 

finger points to heaven, 92. 

sea of pines, 254. 

upon a peak in Darien, 94. 
Silk attire, walk in a, 92. 
Siloa's brook, 292. 
Siloam's shady rill, 293. 
Silver beams on cottage thatch, 296. 

bells of ryhme, 293. 

cord be loosed, 59. 

lining, 86. 

link and silken tie, 228. 
Similes like songs in love, 315. 
Simon Pure, 293. 
Simplicity a child, 293. 
Sin, by that, fell the angels, 16. 

could blight, or sorrow fade, 66. 

custom-house for, 102. 

wages of, is death, 110. 

who tell us love can die, 212. 
Sinews of war, 293. 
Sinful heart makes feeble hand, 293. 
Sing and that they love, 13. 
Singing of birds, time is come, 293. 



I Singing robes, 162. 
J Single blessedness, 129. 
I Sink beneath the shock, 291. 
: Sinking, alacrity in, 11. 
1 Sinne, cunning bosome, 293. 
I Sinned against, more, 294. 
I Sins, charity shall cover the multi- 
tude of, 76. 
compound for, 90. 
expensive, 280. 
Sir Oracle, 119. 

Sires, few sons attain the place of 
their, 294. 
green graves of your, 15. 
Sirups, drowsy, of the world, 259. 

lucent, 294. 
Sister spirit, come away, 294. 
Sit as god, 294. 

i' the centre, 61. 
Sits the wind in that corner, 94. 
Six feet high, 294. 

hundred pounds a year, 158. 
hundred, the, 63. 
Sixpence, I give thee, 188. 
Skies, raised a mortal to the, 290. 
Skin of my teeth, 294. 
Skirmish of wit, 294. 
Sky, admitted to that equal, 4. 
canopied by the blue, 71. 
forehead of the morning, 107. 
souls ripened in northern, 294. 
star shining in the, 294. 
the storm that howls along the, 

294. 
witchery of the soft blue, 294. 
Skyey influences, 287. 
Slain, thrice he slew the, 37. 
Slanderous tongues, death by, 109. 
Slaughter, lamb to the, 294. 
to wade through, 291. 
; Slave, base is the, that pays, 36. 
of dark and dirty mine, 295. 
thou, thou coward, 96. 
to no sect, 286. 
to till my ground, 295. 
Slavery a bitter draught, 295. 
Slaves, Britons never will be, 64. 
cannot breathe in England, 295. 
what can ennoble? 51. 
Sleave, ravelled, of care, 34. 
Sleek-headed men, 72. 



INDEX, 



401 



Sleep, balmy, tired nature's sweet 
restorer, 296. 

blessings on him that invented, 
295. 

breathes at last from out thee, 
295. 

covers a man all over, 295. 

gentle sleep, 156. 

he giveth his beloved, 295. 

in beds of roses, 296. 

in dull, cold marble, 295. 

is like a cloak, 295. 

knits up the ravelled sleave of 
care, 31. 

last long, 80. 

magic, 295. 

medicine to that sweet, 259. 

no more, 54, 

of death, 38. 

our life rounded with, 10. 

shall ne'er know waking, 296. 

six hours in, 295. 

that knows not breaking, 295. 

the friend of woe, 295. 
Sleeping when she died, 118. 

within mine orchard, 101. 
Sleepless, give their, readers sleep,296 
Sleeve, my heart upon my, 106. 
Slept among his ashes, 296. 

thought her dying while she, 118. 
Slide away sad hours, 296. 
Slides into verse, 66. 
Slings and arrows, 38. 
Slipper'd pantaloon, lean and, 8. 
Slippery place, 296. 
Slips, greyhounds in the, 172. 
Slits the thin-spun life, 145. 
Sloth finds the down pillow hard, 152. 
Slough of Despond, 114. 
Slovenly, unhandsome corse, 46. 
Slow and steady wins the race, 296. 

rises worth, 296. 

words move, 11. 
Sluggard, go to the ant, thou, 296. 

the voice of the, 296. 
Small, compare great things with, 296. 

Latin and less Greek, 171. 

proportionsjust beauties see, 297. 

sands the mountain, 296. 
Smallest worm will turn, 297. 
Smell a rat, 189. 



Smell, ancient and" fish-like, 16. 

sweet, and blossom in the dust, 3. 

the blood of a British man, 150. 

villanous, 297. 
Smells to heaven, 297. 
Smile and be a villain, 297. 

from partial beauty won, 297. 

share the good man's, 257. 

the slow wise, 297. 
Smiled when a Sabbath appeared, 44. 
Smiles from reason flow, 297. 

seldom he, 287. 
Smoke, that so gracefully curled, 249. 
Smoking flax not quenched, 65. 
Smote the chord of self, 297. 
Snail, like a, 8. 
Snake, like a wounded, 11. 
Sneer, devil in his, 115. 
Snowfall in the river, 257. 
Snow's daughter, 42. 
Sober second thought, 286. 

to bed go, 144. 
Society a polished horde, 56. 

where none intrudes, 256. 
Soft as her clime, 300. 

impeachment, 297. 

meek, patient, humble, 46. 

phrase of peace, 279. 
Softness she, for, 93. 
Soldier full of strange oaths, S. 
Solemn fop, 154. 

mockery is o'er, 297. 

temples, 10. 
Solid men of Boston, 57. 
Solitary, be not, 298. 
So many worlds, 297. 

sweetly she bade me adieu, 4. 
Some fairy winged and some demon 
guides, 297. 

mute, inglorious Milton, 298. 

said, John, print it, 298. 
Sometliino- in me dangerous, 303. 

wicked, 262. 
Sometimes counsel takes, 298. 
Son of Adam and Eve, 58. 

of his own works, 298. 

of man, 157. 

two-legged thing, a, 298. 
Song charms the sense, 131. 

metre of an antique, 298. 

no sorrow in thy, 298. 



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INDEX, 



Song of Percy and Douglas, 298. 

perhaps a sermon, 282. 

soft words make, 298. 
Sonorous metal, 75. 
Sons of Belial, 44. 

of their great sires, 294. 
Sophonisba, O, 299. 
Sorrow comes with years, 119. 

dogging sinne, 293. 

earth has no, 128. 

give, words, 164. 

her rent is, 299. 

in thy song, 298. 

is my right, 299. 

load of, 248. 

more beautiful, 299. 

never comes too late, 154. 

of the meanest thing, 262. 

parting is such sweet, 247. 

pluck from the memory a rooted, 
20. 

returned with the morn, 299. 

some natural, 299. 

than in anger, 19. 

to pine with fear and, 72. 
Sorrow's crown of sorrow, 99. 

keenest wind, 143. 
Sorrows come, 36. 

in battalions, 36. 

of a poor old man, 255. 

sit, here 1 and, 299. 

transient, 97. 
Sots, what can ennoble, 51. 
Soul, a happy, 299. 

every subject's, is his own, 299. 

flattering unction to, 152. 

gloomy habit of my, 164. 

hides a dark, 181. 

in all things, 300. 

is dead that slumbers, 122. 

is form, 54. 

is with the saints, 125. 

like seasoned timber, 285. 

lose his own, 299. 

of goodness, 168. 

of music slumbers, 290. 

of Orpheus sing, 78. 

of the age, 39. 

pride and haughtiness of, 262. 

prisoned, 131. 

swell the, to rage, 113. 



Soul take the prisoned, 131. 

take wing, 299. 

the flow of, 59. 

the iron entered into his, 193. 

thou hast much goods, 299. 

through my lips, 300. 

tocsin of the, 200. 

under the ribs of death, 110. 

uneasy and confined, 50. 

unlettered, 300. 

was like a star, 300. 

whiteness of his, 300. 

within her eyes, 300. 
Soul's calm sunshine, 300. 

dark cottage, 82. 
Souls, all that were, were forfeit once, 
300. 

made of fire, 82. 

ripened in northern sky, 294. 

sympathize with sounds, 83. 

whose sudden visitations, 9. 
Sound and fury, 70. 

an echo to the sense, 11. 

of revelry by night, 140. 

shall triumph over sense, 300. 

the trumpet, 286. 
Sounding brass, 60. 
Sour grapes, 169. 
Source of sympathetic tears, 300. 
South, o'er my ear like the sweet, 144. 
Sovereign law, 305. 

of sighs, 104. 
Sovereigns of the sea, 334. 
Sow by the ear, 127. 
Soweth, that shall he also reap, 300. 
Sown the wind, 300. 
Spades, emblems of untimely graves, 

86. 
Spare the rod, 81. 
Spareth his rod, 81 (note). 
Spark of heavenly flame, 300. 

vocal, 300. 
Sparkled, she, was exhaled, 77. 
Sparkling with a brook, 64. 
Sparks fly upward, 301. 
Sparow, Philip, 301. 
Sparrow, caters for the, 6. 

fall, hero perish or, 301. 

fall of a, 301. 
Speak by the card, 1. 

daggers to her, 103. 



INDEX. 



403 



Speak it profanely, not to, 301. 

of me as I am, J 38 . 

right on, 301. 
Speaking eye, 256. 
Spears into pruning-hooks, 257. 
Special providence, 301. 
Spectacles of books, 56. 

on nose, 8. 
Spectator of another's woe, 301. 
Speculation in those eyes, 140. 
Speech is silver, 301. 

is truth, 6. 

rude am I in my, 279. 

thought deeper than, 301. 

to disguise thought, 301. 
Speed the going guest, 173. 

the parting guest, 173. 

to-day, 72. 
Spenser, a little nearer, 39. 
Sphere, two stars in one, 301. 
Spider's touch, 149. 
Spiders crawling on my startled 

hopes, 302. 
Spin, toil not, neither do they, 150. 
Spires, whose silent finger, 292. 
Spirit ditties of no tone, 302. 

ill, have so fair a house, 302. 

indeed is willing, 152. 

of a youth, 302. 

of man, divine, 217. 

of my dream, 75. 

return unto God, 125. 

strongest and fiercest, 114. 

the accusing, 17. 

walks of every day, 302. 

willing, 152. 

wounded, 302. 
Spirit-stirring drum, 93. 
Spirits "either sex assume, 302. 

from the vasty deep, 111. 

of great events, 135. 
Spite, in learned doctor's, 302. 

of nature, 302. 
Spleen, meditative, 302. 

mind's wrong bias, 152. 
Splendid angel, 302. 

sight to see, 303. 
Splenetive and rash, 303. 
Spoil the child, 81. 
Spoils belong to the victors, 303. 
Sponge, drink no more than a, 303^ 



Sports of children, 72. 
Spot is cursed, the,' 255. 

which men call earth, 1. 
Spots, quadrangular, 86. 
Spread the thin oar, 73. 

yourselves, 303. 
Spring, come, gentle, 88. 

comes slowly up this way, 303. 

of love, 22. 

unlocks the flowers, 303. 
Springes to catch woodcocks, 303. 
Sp'riting, do my, gently, 94. 
Squadron, set, in the field, 119. 
Square person has squeezed himself 

into a round hole, 303. 
Squeak and gibber, 170. 

as naturally as pigs, 48. 
Squeaking of wry-necked fife, 150. 
Stabbed with a white wench's eye, 

139. 
Staff, thy rod and thy, 303. 
Stage, all the world's a, 304. 

darkened as curtain fell, 303. 

poor, degraded, 303. 

struts his hour upon the, 70. 

the wonder of our, 39. 

veteran on the, 303. 

where every man must play, 304. 
Stagers, old cunning, 154. 
St. Agnes' Eve, 243. 
Stairs, why did you kick me down, 

304. 
Stale, flat, and unprofitable, 70. 
Stalk, maidens withering on the, 304. 
Stalled ox, 46. 
Stand and wait, 304. 

hazard of die, 72. 

not upon the order of going, 304. 
Standing with reluctant feet, 271. 
Stands Scotland where it did, 304. 

tiptoe, day, 106. 
Stanhope's, two dull lines with, 

pencil writ, 2. 
Stanley, on, 76. 

scorns the glance, 280. 

Sir Hubert, 22. 
Stanza, who pens a, 247. 
Star, constant as the northern, 92. 

he that strives to touch, 84. 

love a bright particular, 64. 

of dawn, a later, 304. 



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INDEX. 



Star of peace returns, 105. 
Star-spangled banner, 34. 
Starry arch, 273. 

girdle of the year, 304. 
Stars, clad in beauty of thousand, 
304. 

cut him out in, 161* 

fault not in our, 304. 

hide their diminished heads, 181. 

kings are like the, 332. 

sentinel, 66. 

shooting, attend thee, 140. 

shot madly, 285. 

two, keep not motion, 301. 

were more in fault, 325. 

ye quenchless, 287. 
Started like a guilty thing, 304. 
Starts, everything by, 134. 
State, falling with a falling, 144. 

pillar of, 29. 

resolved to ruin or to rule, 272. 

some service, 287. 

strange eruption to our, 134. 

what constitutes a, 304. 
State's collected will, 305. 
States saved without the sword, 305. 
Statesman, too nice for a, 134. 
Statue that enchants the world, 39. 
Stay, O stay, 305. 
Stayed Ixion's wheel, 305. 
Steady ! steady, 305. 
Steal as gypsies do, 173. 

from the world, 307. 

my thunder, 305. 

the rest, 305. 

us from ourselves, 305. 
Stealth, do good by, 119. 
Steed, farewell the neighing, 93. 

threatens steed, 25. 
Steel, complete, 305. 

grapple with hoops of, 37. 

my man's as true as, 305. 

though locked up in, 61. 
Steep and thorny way to heaven, 
104. 

my senses, 156. 
Steeped me in poverty, 259. 
Steeple, a-cawing from a, 305. 

looking at the, 306. 
Steeple's drowsy chime, 309. 
Steer right onward, 24. 



Step above the sublime, 306. 
Stephen Sly, 306. 
Steps of glory, 164. 
Sticking-place, screw your courage 

to the, 95. 
Stiff in opinions, 133. 

thwack, 96. 
Stiffen the sinews, 49. 
Still achieving, still pursuing, 306. 

small voice, 169, 176, 306. 

the wonder grew, 24. 

to be neat, 306. 
Sting, O death, where is thy, 110, 

170. 
Stir, the fretful, 306. 
St. John, awake, my, 217. 
Stoic of the woods, 306. 
Stoicism, the Romans call it, 262. 
Stolen, not wanting what is, 276. 

waters are sweet, 61. 
Stomach, unbounded, 306. 
Stomach's sake, a little wine for thy, 

306. 
Stone, fling but a, 152. 

tell where I lie, 307. 

that is rolling, 306. 

turn every, 306 (note). 

underneath this, doth lie, 41. 

unturned, leave no, 306. 

walls do not a prison make, 69. 

we raised not a, 14. 
Stones of Rome to mutiny, 68. 

prate of my whereabout, 128. 

sermons in, 5. 
Stood, so, Eliza, 307. 
Stop a hole to keep the wind away, 

68. 
Storied windows, 117. 
Stories, long, dull, and old, 307. 
Storm, directs the, 274. 

pelting of this pitiless, 250. 

that howls along the sky, 294. 
Storms of fate, 144. 

of state, 54. 
Story, I have none to tell, 307. 

of Cambuscan bold, 70. 
Strain at a gnat, 50. 
Straining harsh discords, 307. 

upon the start, 172. 
Strand, India's coral, 6. 
Strange eruptions, 134. 



INDEX. 



405 



Strange, ''twas passing. 248. 

Stranger in strange land. 307. 

than fiction. 150. 
Strangers, by, honoured, 67. 
Straw, stumble at a, 84. 

tickled with a, 33. 
Strawberries, 307. 
Streamlet fears no check, 307. 
Streams of dotage, 121. 

run dimpling, 134. 

its, a lion is in the, 307. 

squeak and gibber in the, 170, 
Strength, a tower of, 3 07. 

strengthens with his, 172. 

to have a giant's, 163. 
Stricken deer, go weep, 112. 
Strife, dare the elements to, 131. 

of tongues, 307. 
Strike for your altars, 15. 

mine eyes, but not my heart, 5. 
String attuned to mirth, 83. 
Strings of steel, 57. 
Striving to better, we mar, 307. 
Strolling tribe, 307. 
Strong, battle not to the, 37. 

upon stronger side, 96. 
Stronger by weakness, 82. 
Strove with none. 307. 
Struggling, and blood, and shrieks, 
308. 

in the storms of fate, 144. 
Strutted, looked big, 308. 
Stubborn patience, 308. 
Study, labour and intent, 308, 

of mankind, '263. 

weariness of flesh, 55. 

what you most affect, 263. 
Stuff, ambition"s made of sterner, 15. 

life is made of, 308. 

other men's, 118. 

the head with reading, 138. 
Subject of all verse, 106. 
Subject's duty, every, 299. 
Sublime and the ridiculous, 306. 

step above the, 306. 

to suffer, 308. 
Submit, courage never to, or yield, 

12. 
Success, 'tis not in mortals, 287. 
Successful soldier, 308. 
Successive title, 24. 



Successors before him, 16. 

Such mistress, such IN an, 308. 

Suck my last breath, 286. 

Sucking-dove, gently as any, 121. 

Suckle fools, 43. 

Sudden visitations daze the world, 9. 

Suffer and be strong, sublime, 308. 

those who inflict must, 308. 
Sufferance is the badge, 33. 
Suffering, child of, 81. 

learn in, 258. 
Sufliciency, an elegant, 23. 
Sufficient unto the day, 107. 
Sugar o'er the devil himself, 3. 
Suing, hell it is in, long to bide, 72. 
Suit lightly won, 308. 

service, 308. 

the action to the word, 3. 
Sullein mind, 309. 
Sullenness against nature, 309. 
Sum of more, giving thy, 309. 
Summer, eternal, 1S4. 

last rose of, 203. 

made glorious, 86. 

of your youth, 78. 
Summer's cloud, 70. 

noontide air, 29. 
Summons thee to heaven or hell, 200. 
Sun a thief, 90. 

dedicate his beauty to the, 10. 

doubt the, doth move, 121. 

farthing candle to the, 89. 

garish, 161. 

go down upon your wrath, 19. 

s;oes round, take all the rest, 89, 
164. 

hail the rising, 268. 

in my dominions never sets, 120. 

in the lap of Thetis, 48. 

men shut doors against setting, 
309. 

mvself in Huncamunca's eves, 
309. 

no new thing under the, 309. 

of righteousness arise, 309. 

of York, 86. 

passes through dirty places, 309. 

pleasant for the eyes to behold 
the, 309. 

true as the dial to the, 116. 

upon an Easter day, 56. 



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INDEX. 



Sun, world without a, 297. 

Sunbeams crawl, 309. 

Sunday from the week, divide, 309. 

shines no Sabbath day, 309. 
Sunflower turns on her god, 309. 
Sung ballads from a cart, 33. 
Sunium's marbled steep, 310. 
Sunlight drinketh dew, 300. 
Sunny as her skies, 300. 

isles, 310. 

openings, 310. 
Suns, process of the, 9. 
Sunset of life, 89. 
Sunshine broken in the rill, 310, 

eternal, 134. 

made, in the shady place, 17. 

of the breast, 310. 
Superfluous lags the veteran, 303. 
Supped full of horrors, 310. 
Supper with such a w om an , 75 ( note) . 
Supple as your glove, 272. 
Surfeit, no crude, 21. 
Surgery, past all, 248. 
Surgical operation for Scotch under- 
standing, 310. 
Survey our empire, 285. 
Suspects, yet strongly loves, 121. 
Suspicion, Caesar's wife above, 68. 

haunts the guilty mind, 67. 
Swallow a camel, 50. 
Swan and shadow, 289. 

of Avon, 311. 

on St. Mary's lake, 289. 
Swan-like let me sing and die, 310. 
Swashing outside, 310. 
Swear not by the moon, 310. 

to the truth of a song, 310. 
Sweat for promotion, 263. 

of thy face, 125. 
Sweet approach of even, 106. 

are the pleasures, 65. 

are the uses of adversity, 5. 

bells jangled, 44. 

childish days, 107. 

day, so cool, so calm, 311. 

is pleasure after pain, 256. 

little cherub, 310. 

so coldly, 87. 

spring, 311. 

Swan of Avon, 311. 
Sweetest thing that ever grew, 121. 



Sweetness, linked, long drawn out, 
311. 

on the desert air, 57. 
Sweets compacted lie, 311 . 

feast of nectared, 21. 

of forgetfulness, 86. 

to the sweet, 311. 

wilderness of, 311. 
Swift expires, a driveller, 121. 

race not to the, 37. 
Swim to yonder point, 2. 
Swimmer in his agony, 65. 
Swine, pearls before, 250. 
Swinish multitude, 311. 
Swoop, at one fell, 79. 
Sword, famous by my, 145. 

has laid him low, 20. 

pen mightier than the, 251. 

take away the, 305. 

will open, 243. 
Swords into ploughshares, 257. 

ten thousand, 7. 
Sybil, contortions of the, 93. 
Syllable of recorded time, 70. 
Syllables govern the world, 311. 
Sylvia in the night, 311. 
Syrups drowsy, 259. 

Table of memory, 223. 

on a roar, 151. 
Tables groaned with feast, 148. 

my tables, 297. 
Take any shape but that, 289. 

her up tenderly, 312. 

him for all in all, 219. 

mine ease in my inn, 129. 

no note of time, 312. 

off my flesh and sit in my bones, 
312. 

O take those lips away, 285. 

physic, Pomp, 253. 

who have the power, 168. 

ye each a shell, 312. 
Takin' the breeks off, 51 (note). 
Tale, a plain, 255. 

a, unfold, 286. 

an honest, speeds best, 183. 

as 'twas said to me, 312. 

every shepherd tells his, 136. 

of Troy divine, 250. 

round, unvarnished, 278. 



INDEX. 



407 



Tale, schoolboy's, 312. 

so sad, so tender, 287. 

tedious as a twice-told, 217. 

that is told. 312. 

the moon takes up the wondrous, 
135. 

thereby hangs a, 275, 312. 

'tis an old, 216. 

to adorn a, 5. 

told by an idiot, 70. 

which holdeth children, 82. 
Talent of our English nation, 271. 
Talk, die if I don"t, 313. 

good gods, how he will, 166. 

I never spent an hour's, 229. 

they always, who never think, 
313. 
Tarn was glorious, 191. 
Tame villatic fowl, 157. 
Tammie gloured, 160. 
Task is done. 196. 

is smoothly done, 313. 
Taskmaster's eye. 139. 
Taste of your quality, 267. 
Tatters, tear a passion to, 127. 
Taught us how to die, 116. 
Taw, knuckle down at. 201. 
Tea, fate in grounds of. 172. 

sober, sage, venerable liquid, 
313. 
Teach me to feel, 225. 

the young idea, 112. 
Team of little atomies, 6. 
Tear, every woe can claim a, 134. 

for pity, 76. 

forgot as soon as shed. 310. 

he gave to misery all he had, a, 58. 

in her eye, 208. 

law which moulds a, 204. 

passage of an angel's, 247. 

some melodious, 223. 
Tears and careless rain of heaven, 313. 

and laughter for all time, 330. 

baptized in, 32. 

beguile her of, 313. 

big round, 313. 

down Pluto's cheek, 78. 

flattered to. 233. 

hinder needle, 313. 

idle, 3 07. 

in piteous cha.se, 313. 



Tears, natural, they dropt, 313. 

of joy, 313. 

pensive beauty in, 41. 

prepare to shed, 313. 

sacred source of. 300. 

such as angels weep, burst 
forth, 313. 

too deep for, 313. 
Teeth are set on edge, 169. 

sans, 9. 

skin of my, 294. 
Tell it not in Gath, 28. 

me, my soul, 313. 

truth and shame the devil, 115. 
Tell-tale women, 20. 
Temper whose unclouded ray, 314. 
'1 empestuous petticoat. 314. 
Temples, groves God's first, 172. 

of his gods. 2?. 

solemn, 10. 
Tempora mutantur, 263 (note). 
Ten low words. 314. 

thousand swords, 7. 

years ago, 314. 
Tender and true, 226. 

grace of a day, 61. 

leaves of hope, 53. 
Tender-handed stroke nettle, 237. 
Tenderly, take her up, 312. 
Tenement of clay, 85. 
Tenor of their way, 314. 
Tent, nightly pitch my moving, 107. 
Tented held, 314. 
Terms, good set, 157. 
Terrible curse, 101. 
Test, brino- me to the, 216. 
Text, holy, 280. 314. 

rivulet of, 276. 
Thames, no allaying, 153. 314. 
Thank me no thankmgs, 252 (note). 
Thank'd at all. not, I'm thank ! d 

enough. 314. 
Thankless errand, 165. 
Theban, learned, 314. 
Themes, transcend our wonted, 18. 
Thespis, first professor, S3. 
The owl, for all his feathers, 243. 

Romans were like brothers, 314. 

widow can bake, 328. 
They conquer love that run away, 91 . 

lauo-h that win, 314. 



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INDEX. 



Thick- coming fancies, 145. 
Thief doth fear each bush, 67. 

in the night, come as a, 315. 

of time, 263. 

rascally, 315. 
Thievery, example you with, 90. 
Thing, acting of a dreadful, 3. 

a good, 336. 

devised by the enemy, 132. 

enskyed and sainted, 133. 

in awe of such, 31. 

never says a foolish, 181. 

of beauty, 40. 

saw ye my wee, 283. 

started like a guilty, 304. 

sweetest, ever grew, 121. 
Things, compare great with small, 
296. 

contests from trivial, 93. 

done at the Mermaid, 225. 

God's sons are, 315. 

left undone, 315. 

sad vicissitudes of, 318. 

seen stronger than things heard, 
315. 

unattempted, 315. 

unutterable, 209. 

without all remedy, 271. 
Think, make thousands, perhaps mil- 
lions, 193. 

of that, Master Brook, 222. 

that day lost, 3. 

too little, talk too much, 315. 
Thinks it luxury, 49. 
Thin-spun life, 145. 
Thirsty earth, 128. 
Thirty days hath November, 23 
(note). 

days hath September, 23. 
Thorn, milk-white, 45. 

that in her bosom lod^e, 205. 

withering on the virgin, 129. 
Thorns, first to be touched by, 206. 

touched by the, 177. 
Thort a' ad summat to saay, 315. 
Thou art the man, 106. 
Though lost to sight, 1 (note). 
Thought, armour is his honest, 24. 

can you paint a, 316. 

deeper than speech, 301. 

is frank and free, 316. 



Thought is speech, 6. 

like a passing, 248. 

meet thee like a pleasant, 223. 

pale cast of, 54. 

power of, 260. 

sober second, 286. 

the dome of, 120. 

to have common, 315. 

whistled for want of, 315. 

wish father to that, 316. 
Thoughts, gentle, 162. 

hospitable, 114. 

no tongue, 164. 

of men widened, 9. 

river of, 276. 

second, 286. 

that breathe, 64. 

that thick blood, 52. 

that wander through eternity, 
135. 

too deep for tears, 313. 
Thread, feels at each, 149. 

of his verbosity, 24. 
Threaten and command, 95. 
Three sexes, 316. 

years' child, 80. 
Thrice he routed all his foes, 37. 

he slew the slain, 37. 

is he armed, 61. 
Thrift, thrift, Horatio, 160. 
Thrive at Westminster, 312. 
Throne, my bosom's lord sits lightly 
in his, 57. 

of royal state, 33. 
Thrones, Dominations, 262. 
Throstle sings, 316. 
Through thick and thin, 184. 
Throw physic to the dogs, 120. 
Thumbs, pricking of my, 262. 
Thunder, leaps the live, 75.- 

lightning, or in rain, 316. 

steal my, 305. 
Thwack, witb many a stiff, 96. 
Thyme, pun-provoking, 265. 

the wild, grows, 34. 
Tickle earth with hoe, 128. 

your catastrophe, 73. 
Tickled with a straw, 38. 
Tide in the affairs of men, 157. 
Tidings, when he frowned, 31&. 
Tie, the silken, 228. 



INDEX. 



409 



Tiger, in war imitate the, 49. 
Tilt at all I meet, 279. 
Timber, seasoned, never gives, 285. 
Time adds increase to her truth, 227. 

but motion, 336. 

conquers all, 317. 

count, by heart-throbs, 111. 

elaborately thrown away, 316. 

flies, 110,317. 

footprints on the sands of, 156. 

forefinger of all, 156. 

foremost files of, 8. 

has laid his hand gently, 316. 

has not cropt the roses, 78. 

his, is for ever, 136. 

how small a part of, 316. 

is fleeting, 26. 

is still a-flying, 162. 

is, time was, tune is past, 317. 

lords of, 280. 

noiseless falls foot of, 155, 317. 

nor place adhere, 316. 

not of an age, but for all, 7. 

now is the accepted, 316. 

relish of the saltness, 7. 

rich with spoils of, 274. 

sands of, 156. 

scorns of, 53. 

shall throw a dart at thee, 106. 

syllable of recorded, 70. 

toiled after him in vain, 317. 

to mourn, lacks, 134. 

tooth of, 269, 317. 

tries the troth, 317. 

wasted is existence, 317. 

we take no note of, 44, 312. 

what will it not subdue, 161. 

whirligig of, 317. 

with thee conversing, I forget 
all, 93. 

writes no wrinkle, 317. 
Time's furrows, 20. 

noblest offspring, 95. 
Times that try men's souls, 317. 
Tinkling cymbal, 60. 
Tipsy dance and jollity, 273. 
'Tis better to have loved and lost, 318. 

not a lip, 40. 
To err is human, 118. 

forgive divine, 118. 

know her was to love her, 167. 



To point a moral, 5. 

see her is to love her, 167. 

strive, to seek, to find, and not 
to yield, 318. 

teach a truth, 318. 
Toad, ugly and venomous, 5. 
Toade, the foule, hathe, 5. 
Tobacco, sublime, 318. 
Tocsin of the soul, 44, 200. 
I Toe of the peasant, 7. 

on the light fantastic, 88. 
Toil and trouble, 121. 

and trouble, why all this, 56. 

envy, want, the jail, 191. 

must govern those who, 138. 

verse sweetens, 318. 
Tolerable, not to be endured, 132. 
Toleration with tacit reserves, 318. 
Tell for the brave, 318. 
Tomb, no inscription on my, 133. 

of all the Capulets, 71. 

of him who would have made 
glad the world, 318. 
To-morrow and to-morrow, 70. 

boast not thyself of, 53. 

cheerful as to-day, 314. 

do thy worst, 218. 

the darkest day, live till, 46. 
To-morrow's sun may never rise, 112. 
To-morrows, confident, 78. 
Tone of languid nature, 280. 
Tonge, kepen wel thy, 323. 
Tongue, braggart with my, 59. 

dropped manna, 46. 

give thy thoughts no, 164. 

in every wound, 68. 

long, 292. 

moderate rancour of, 319. 

music's golden, 233. 

of true obedience, 319. 

Shakespeare spake, 143. 

win a woman with, 220. 
Tongues, envious, silence, 13. 

evil, 107. 

in trees, 5. 

slanderous, 109. 
Too early seen unknown, 203. 

poor for a bribe, 63. 

too solid flesh, 71. 
Tooth for tooth, 138. 

of time, 269. 



410 



INDEX. 



Tooth, sharper than a serpent's, 8:1 . 
Toothache, philosopher that could 

endure the, 253. 
Top of my bent, 45. 
Torrent, and whirlwind's roar, 319. 

heard on the hill, 86. 

of a woman's will, 319. 

of his fate, 147. 
Torrent's smoothness, 319. 
Torrents, motionless, 73. 
Touch not, taste not, 319. 
Touched by the thorns, 177. 

nothing that he did not adorn, 
5, 239. 
Tower of strength, 307. 
Towered cities please us, 67. 
Towering passion, 319. 
Towers along the steep, 64. 

the cloud-capp'd, 10. 
Town, fifty roads to, 276. 
Toys of age, 38. 
Trade, two of a, 319. 
Trade's proud empire, 319. 
Trail of the serpent, 287. 
Trail' d pen, man who has, 251. 
Train, a melancholy, 319. 

up a child, 81. 
Traitors, our doubts are, 121. 

our fears make us, 148. 
Transmitter of a foolish face, 142. 
Trappings and suits of woe, 247. 
Traveller from New Zealand, 319. 
Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, 120. 
Tread a measure, 226. 
Treasons, stratagems, and spoils, 90. 
Treasure is, heart be where your,320. 
Treasures up a wrong, him who, 320. 
Treble, childish, 8. 
Tre, Pol, and Pen, 270. 
Tree falleth, where the, 255. 

fruit of that forbidden, 160. 

is known by his fruit, 160. 

like a green bay, 172. 

of deepest root, 212. 
Tree's inclined, as the twig is bent,130 
Trees, tongues in, 5. 
Trelawny die, and shall, 270. 
Trembling hope repose, 57. 
Trencherman, valiant, 320. 
Triangular person, 303. 
Tribe, richer than all his, 250. 



Tribe, the badge of our, 33. 

Tribute of a sigh, 292. 

Trick worth two of that, 320. 

Tricks, fantastic, 18. 

Tried, she is to blame who has been , 

113, 290. 
Trifles light as air, 91. 

unconsidered, 320. 
Trim gardens, 273. 
Triton blow his wreathed horn, 98. 

of the minnows, 228. 
Trodden the wine-press, 320. 
Troop, farewell the plumed, 93. 
Troops of friends, 101. 
Trope, out there flew a, 320. 
Tropic, under the, 151. 
Troubled, let not your heart be, 177. 
Troubles, take up arms against a sea 

of, 38. 
Troublous guest, 212. 
Trowel, laid on with a, 202. 
Troy divine, 250. 

fired another, 320. 

half his, was burned, 261. 
True and brave, 320. 

as steel, 305. 

as the dial, 116. 

dare to be, 105. 

hope is swift, 184. 

love's the gift, 228. 

minds, marriage of, 15. 

to himself, 320. 

to thine ownself, 57. 

wit is nature, 236. 
Trump, the shrill, 93. 
Trust ourselves alone, 320. 
Truth, buy the, 67. 

crushed to earth, 129. 

denies all eloquence to woe, 131. 

doubt, to be a liar, 121. 

from pole to pole, 135. 

great is, 171. 

in every shepherd's tongue, 190. 

is beauty, 41. 

is, where doubt, 320. 

of a song, swear to the, 310. 

on the scaffold, 320. 

ridicule is the test of, 274. 

severe, by fairy fiction drest,143. 

stranger than fiction, 150. 

tell, and shame the devil, 115. 



INDEX. 



411 



Truth, vantage-ground of, 320. 

whispering tongues can poison, 
216. 
Tug of war, 171. 
Turf, green be the, 171. 

of fresh earth, 129. 

Peter, 306. 
Turn every stone, 306 (note). 
Turning again toward childish treble 

pipes, 8. 
Turtle, voice of the, is heard, 293. 
'Twas a fat oyster, 312. 
Twice-told tale, 217. 
Twig is bent, 130. 
Twilight gray, in sober livery, 135. 

of laurel grove, 118. 
Twinkling of an eye, 139. 
Two blades of grass, two ears of 
corn, 49. 

eternities, 134. 
Two-legged thing, 298. 
Type of the wise, 179. 
Tyrant wife, vassal of a, 320. 
Tyrants from policy, 271, 

Ugly, privilege of being, 263. 
Umbered face, 25. 
Una with her milk-white lamb, 231. 
Unadorned, beauty, adorned the 

most, 213. 
Unanimity is wonderful, 9. 
Unassuming commonplace, 89. 
Uncertain, coy, 17. 

glory of an April day, 23. 
Unclasps her warmed jewels, 321. 
Uncle, O my prophetic soul, 264. 
Unconquerable mind, 13. 
Unconquered Wellington, 321. 
Unconsidered trifles, 320. 
Unction, flattering, 152. 
Under the hawthorn, 136. 

the tropic is our language spoke, 
151. 

which king, 46. 
Underlings, we are, 304. 
Underneath this stone doth lie, 41. 

this sable hearse, 106. 
Understanding but no tongue, 164. 
Understood, harmony, discord not, 

12. 
Un devout astronomer, 29. 



Undiscovered country, 54. 
Undivulged crimes, 98. 
Uneasy lies the head, 99. 
Unexpressive she, 321. 
Unfeathered two-legged thing, 298. 
Unforgiving eye, 118. 
Unfortunate Miss Bailey, 321. 

one more, 62. 
Ungracious pastors do, 104. 
Unhouseled, disappointed, 192. 
Unintelligible world, 66. 
United yet divided, 62. 
Uniting, by, we stand, 321. 
Unity, to dwell together in, 62. 
Universe, born for the, 247. 

harmony of the, 3. 
Universal good, 12. 
Unkindest cut of all, 102. 
Unknelled, uncoffined, 321. 
Unknown, argues yourselves, 24. 

too early seen, 203. 
Unlamented let me die, 307. 
Unlineal hand, 35. 
Unmask beauty to moon, 76. 
Unmeaning smiles, 231. 
Unreal mockery, 229. 
Unrespited, unpitied, 321. 
Unseen, born to blush, 57. 
Unskilful laugh, 197. 
Unsought be won, 92. 
Unstable as water, 321. 
Unsyllabled, unsung, 321. 
Untaught knaves, 46. 
Unutterable things, 209. 
Unvarnished tale, 278. 
Unwashed artificer, 321. 

the great, 321. 
Unwept, unhonoured, unsung, 321. 
Unwhipped of justice, 98. 
Up and quit your books, 56. 
Upas in Marylebone Lane, 163. 
Upon this hint, 105. 
Urania, govern my song, 30, 
Urn, hissing, 88. 

of poverty, 259. 

storied, 20. 
Urs, those dreadful, 93. 
Use doth breed'a habit, 174. 

him as though you loved him, ' 
(frog) 159. 
Uses to what base, 36. 



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INDEX. 



Utica, no pent-up, 238. 
Utterance of the earthly gods, 321. 

Vain fantasy, 82. 

pomp and glory, 144. 
very vain, 51. 
Vale, meanest flowret of the, 89. 

of years, 322. 
Valiant flea, 61. 

never taste of death, 96. 
thou little, 96. 
Valley so sweet, 64. 
Vallombrosa, the brooks in, 135. 
Valour, better part of, 117. 
is oozing out, 322. 
liberty, and virtue, 236. 
Value, reward of thin owen, 273. 
Vanille of society, 322. 
Vanities, fuming, of earth, 236. 
Vanity and vexation of spirit, 322. 
of vanities, 322. 
the fool of, 322. 
Vanquished, he could argue still, 

24. 
Vantage, coigne of, 87. 
Vantage-ground of truth, 320. 
Vapours, pestilent congregation of, 

151. 
Variable as the shade, 17. 
Varied God, 13. 
Variety, her infinite, 7. 
Variety's the very spice of life, 206. 
Varnished clock, 78. 
Vase, you may shatter the, 278. 
Vault, fretted, 11. 

the deep damp, 222. 
to brag of, 206. 
Vaulting ambition, 15. 
Veil from hidden worth, 122. 
Vein, I am not in the, 239. 
Veneration, which have much, 327. 
Venice, her hundred isles, 322. 

1 stood, 63. 
Venomous and ugly toad, 5. 
Venus rising from a sea of jet, 322. 
Verbosity, thread of his, 24. 
Verge enough, 16. 
of heaven, 75. ' 
of the churchyard, 322. 
Vermeil-tinctured lip, 231. 
Vernal bloom, 106. 



Verse, cursed be the, 101. 
hoarse, rough, 11. 
married to immortal, 311, 329. 
may find him, 112. 
subject of all, 106. 
sweetens toil, 318. 
who says in, 327. 
Verses, rhyme the rudder is, 322. 
Very few to love, 16. 

like a whale, 322. 
Vestal's lot, happy is the, 49. 
Veteran, superfluous lags the, 303. 
Veterans, world rewards its, 7. 
Vibrates in the memory, music, 233. 
Vice is a monster, 132. 

itself lost half its evil, 323. 
itself, thou art, 322. 
prevails, when, 259. 
Vices, our pleasant, 193. 

small, 276. 
Victims, the little, play, 120. 
Victors, to the, belong the spoils, 

303. 
Victory, 'twas a famous, 145. 
or else a grave, 323. 
or Westminster Abbey, 323. 
Victories, peace hath her, 249. 
Victorious o'er all the ills of life, 191. 
Video meliora, 274 (note). 
Vienna, looker-on here in, 209. 
Vile dust, from whence he sprung, 
321. 
guns, 59. 
Village bells, 44, 83. 
Hampden, 298. 
Villain and he miles asunder, 323. 
hungry, lean-faced, 254. 
one murder made a, 232. 
smile, and be a, 297. 
Villanie maketh villeine, 323. 
Villanous saltpetre, 59.- 
Vine and fig-tree, 220. 
Vines, foxes that spoil the, 157. 
Violet blue, the, 278. 

by a mossy stone, 294. 
nodding, grows, 34. 
throw a perfume on the, 137. 
Violets, plucked, ne'er grow again, 
323. 
upon a bank of, 144. 
Virgins soft as the roses, 217. 



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413 



Virtue alone happiness below, 175, 
assume a, 29. 
feeble, 323. 

homage rice pays to, 182. 
is bold, 168. 
is her own reward, 323. 
is its own reward, 323 (note). 
linked with one, 94. 
makes the bliss, 51. 
of necessity, 237. 
outbuilds the pyramids, 323. 
progressive, 23. 
reward of, bread, 273. 
the first, 3-23. 

too painful an endeavour, 93. 
uneasy, 323. 
Virtues, be to her, 37. 
plead like angels, 18. 
we write in water, 60. 
Virtuous and vicious, 149. 
because thou art, 69. 
Marcia, 221. 
Visage, on his bold, 226. 
Visible darkness, 105. 
Vision and faculty divine, 142. 
baseless fabric of this, 10. 
beatific, 274. 

seen in dreamy sleep, 118. 
the young men's, 122. 
Visions of glory, 323. 

young men shall see, 122. 
Visitations daze the world, 9. 
Visits, angels', short and bright, 19. 

like angel-, 19. 
Vital spark, 300. 
Voice, cry Sleep no more, 34. 

gentle and low in women, 137. 
1 hear a, you cannot, 189. 
in my dreaming ear, 299. 
lost in singing anthems, 20. 
my, still for war, 277. 
of charmers. 4. 
of God, 323. 
of nature cries from the tomb, 

27. 
of the sluggard, 296. 
of the turtle, 293. 
people's, is odd, 323. 
still, small, 169. 176. 217. 
Voiceful sea, swelling of the, 50. 
Voices, earth with her thousand, 128. 



Void, have left an aching, 2. 
Volume of my brain, 60. 

awful, 231. 
Vox populi, vox Dei, 232 (note), 

323 (note). 
Vulgar boil an egg, 130. 

by no means, 37. 

fate, 45. 

flight of common souls, 89. 

men, herd of, 323. 



Waft a feather, 149. 

Wager, opinions backed by a, 224. 

Wagers, fools for arguments use, 

154. 
Wages of sin, 110. 
Wags, how the world, 139. 
Waist, hands round the slight, 175. 
Wake, angels, thee, 245. 
Waked to ecstasy, 131. 
Wakens the slumbering ages, 9. 
Waking bliss, 324. 
Walk by faith, 143. 

in silk attire, 292. 

while ye have the light, 207. 
Walketh about as a roaring lion, 5. 
Walks, echoing, between, 130. 

the waters, 131. 
Wall, weakest goes to the, 324. 
Walton's heavenly memory, 224, 
Want, lonely retired, 19. 

of decency, 110. 

of pence, eternal, 324. 
Wanting, art found, 33. 
Wanton wiles, 267. 
War, blast ot; 49. 

circumstance of glorious, 262. 

even to the knife, 200. 

ez fer, 324. 

first in, 249. 

grim-visaged, 172. 

its thousands slays, 324. 

let slip the dogs 'of, 100. 

my sentence is for open, 234. 

my voice is still for, 277. 

then was the tug of, 171. 

toils of, 49. 

where Helen is will be, 326. 
Warble his native wood-notes, 324. 
Ward, my old, 65. 



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Warder of the brain, 60. 
Warn, to comfort, 252. 
Warrior famoused for fight, 55. 

taking his rest, 222. 
War's a game, 324. 

glorious art, 232. 

rattle, 57. 
Wars that make ambition virtue, 

93. 
Washington left awful memory, 207. 
Waste its sweetness, 57. 
Wasting in despair, 114. 
Watch, an idler is a, 190. 

and pray, 152. 

in every old man's eye, 71. 
Watch-dog's honest bark, 111. 

voice, 228. 
Watcher of the skies, 94. 
Watches and receives, heart that, 

324. 
Water, conscious, 92. 

everywhere, 324. 

imperceptible, 325. 

name writ in, 325. 

not a drop to drink, 324. 

smooth runs the, 325. 

spilt on the ground, 325. 

unstable as, 321. 
Waters, cast thy bread upon the, 61. 

she walks the, 131. 
W T atery depths, chasms and, 103. 
Wave o' the sea, 325. 

write benefits on, 325. 
Waves be stayed, 264. 
Waving hands, 210. 
Wax to receive, 221. 
Way, a dim and perilous, 117. 

of all the earth, 129. 

of kindness, 198. 

of life, 101. 

of righteousness, 99. 

to dusty death, 70. 
Ways, amend your, 16. 

of God, 165. 

of God, justify the, 105. 

of God, vindicate the, 153. 

of men, 84. 

of pleasantness, 248. 
We first endure, 132. 

had ne'er been broken-hearted, 
237. 



We know what we are, 325. 

suffer and we strive, 325. 
Weak women went astray, 325. 
Weakest goes to the wall, 324. 
Wealth accumulates, 61. 

and place, 163. 

of Ormuz, 33. 
Weariness can snore upon the flint, 
152. 

of the flesh, 55. 
Wearisome condition of humanity, 

186. 
Weary be at rest, 325. 

fiat, stale, 71. 

of conjectures, 91. 
Web of our life, 206. 

what a tangled, 326. 
Wee, modest, crimson-tipped, 325. 

short hour, 185. 
Weed on Lethe wharf, 147. 
Weed's plain heart, 286. 
Weep no more, lady, 323. 

to record, 17. 
Weeping thou sat'st, 80. 
Weighed in the balances, 33. 
Weighty bullion of one sterling line, 

325. 
Welcome, deep-mouthed, 111. 

the coming guest, 173. 
Well, not so deep as a, 84. 

of English undefyled, 132. 
Well-bred whisper, 270. 
Well-favoured man, 156. 
Wellington, unconquered, 321. 
Wells, dropping buckets into empty, 

65. 
Wept, Caesar hath, 15. 

o'er his wounds, 99. 
Were none to praise, 16. 
Wet damnation, 325. 

his whistle, 325. 

sheet and flowing sea, 325. 
Whale and bobbed for, 53. 

very like a, 322. 
What a falling off was there, 144. 

a fall was there, 144. 

a piece of work, 3. 

a tangled web we weave, 326. 

beckoning ghost, 326. 

boots it at one gate, 326. 

can ennoble sots, 51. 



INDEX. 



415 



What care I how fair she be, 114. 

God hath joined, 326. 

hell it is in suing, 326. 

he knew what's, 226. 

is friendship, 159. 

is mine is yours, 326. 

is nearest touches most, 326. 

is writ is writ, 333. 

makes all doctrine clear, 119. 

man dare, I dare, 105. 

strikes the crown, 326. 

we fear of death, 7. 

will Mrs. Grundy say, 173. 
Whatever is, is right, 12. 
What's Hecuba to him, 326. 

impossible, can't be, 192. 

in a name, 276. 

what, 226. 
Wheat, two grains hid, 74. 
"Wheel broken at the cistern, 59, 

butterfly upon a, 67. 
Wheels of weary life, 85. 
When Adam dolve, 4. 

lovely woman, 154. 

shall we three meet, 316. 

swift Camilla scours plain, 11. 

two agree, 326. 
Where Helen is will be war, 326. 

is it, cries out, 39. 

none admire, 42. 

none attends, 327. 

the Atlantic rolls, 326. 
Whereabout, prate of my, 128. 
Wherever God erects, 76. 
Which have much veneration, 327. 
Whining schoolboy, 8. 
Whip, in every honest hand, 269. 

me such honest knaves, 327. 
Whipped the offending Adam, 4. 

two 'prentices, 327. 
W hips and scorns of time, 53. 
Whirligig of time, 317. 
Whirlwind, reap the, 300. 

rides in the, 274. 
"Whisper circling round, 316. 
"W hispering humbleness, 36. 

I will ne'er consent, 327. 

lovers made, 7. 

tongues, 216. 

wind, 228. 

with white lips, 327. 



Whistle, clear as, 85. 

her off, 261. 

his friends back, 244. 

paid dear for his, 327. 

wet his, 325. 
Whistled for want of thought, 315. 
Whistling of a name, 329. 
White, so very white, 327. 

wench's black eye, 139. 
Whited sepulchres, 54. 
Whiteness, angel, 21. 

of name, 300 (note). 

of soul, 300. 
Whitewashed wall, 79. 
Whither thou goest I will go, 

251. 
Who builds a church to God, 83. * 

but must laugh, 204. 

dotes yet doubts, 121. 

drives fat oxen, 147. 

fears to speak of '98, 327. 

goes to bed, 42. 

has not known ill-fortune, 327. 

never mentions hell to ears po- 
lite, 101. 

pens a stanza, 247. 

says in verse, 327. 

shall decide, 72. 

steals my purse, 168. 

sweeps a room, 123. 

was then the gentleman, 4. 
Whole of life to live, 328. 
Whom the gods love, 328. 
Whose body nature is, 247. 

dog are you, 120. 
Why did vou kick me down stairs, 
304. 

dost thou shiver and shake, 
328. 

in the name of glory, 328. 

is plain as way to parish church, 
246. 

man of morals, why, 219. 

so pale and wan, 245. 

were they proud, 328. 
Wicked, 'cause I's, 328. 

cease from troubling, 225. 

fiee when no man pursueth, 
328. 
Wide as a church door, 84. j 
Widow of my bosom, 328. 



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Widow, the, can bake, 328. 
Wife and children impediments to 
great enterprises, 133. 

of thy bosom, 328. 

true and honourable, 123. 
Wild curates, 328. 

dreams, 328. 

in woods, 158. 
Wilderness, lodging-place in the, 288 
(note). 

O tor a lodge in some vast, 288. 

of sweets, 311. 
Wildernesses, desert, 10. 
Wild-fowl, Pythagoras concerning, 

169. 
Wiles, simple, 97. 
Will, complies against his, 90. 

current of a woman's, 100. 

if she will, 319, 329. 

puzzles the, 54. 

unconquerable, 12. 

wisdom finds a way, 154. 
Willing to wound, 104. 
Willows, our harps upon the, 175. 
Willowy brook, 94. 
Win, they laugh that, 314. 
Wind and his nobility, 46. 

as large a charter as the, 205. 

as the idle, 183. 

bayed the whisperings 228. 

blow, and crack your cheeks, 
52. 

blow, come wrack, 117. 

blow thou winter, 52. 

bloweth where it listeth, 329. 

fiy upon the wings of the, 329. 

God tempers the, 166. 

hollow blasts of, 104. 

hope constancy in, 92. 

ill, turns none to good, 190. 

let her down the, 261. 

sits the, in that corner, 94. 

sorrow's keenest, 143. 

that follows fast, 325. 

that profits nobody, 190. 

they have sown the, 300. 
Winding bout, 311. 
Windows richly dight, 117. 

that exclude the light, 247. 
Winds viewless, 86. 
Windward of the law, 204, 329. 



Windy side of the law, 204. 
Wine, a good, familiar creature, 
192. 

for the stomach's sake, 306. 

good, needs no bush, 67. 

look not upon the, 209. 

O thou invisible spirit of, 193. 
Wings like a dove, 121. 

of the wind, 329. 

riches make themselves, 329. 
Winter comes to rule the year, 329. 

is past, 293. 

lingering, chills the lap of May, 
222. 

my age is as a lusty, 7. 

of her days, 52. 

of our discontent, 86. 

ruler of the inverted year, 329. 
Wisdom alone truly fair, 329. 

and false philosophy, 144. 

and wit, 153. 

finds a way, 154. 

fraught, 329. 

is humble, 200. 

married to immortal verse, 329. 

mounts her zenith, 108. 
Wise as serpents, 121. 

father knows his own child, 80. 

folly to be, 154. 

in your own conceits, 90. 

men and gods on strongest side, 
180. 

ne'er live long - , 329. 

not worldly, 38. 

saws and modern instances, 8. 

too, to err, 329. 

type of, 179. 
Wisely, charm he never so, 4. 

loved not, 138. 

worldly, 38. 
Wiser and better grow, 172. 

men become, 82. 
Wisest, brightest, meanest of man- 
kind, 329. 

virtuousest, 117. 
Wish father to that thought, 316. 
Wishes at least pleasures of poor, 
330. 
idle, 154. 

lengthen as our sun declines, 
330. 



INDEX. 



417 



Wishes like shadows, 330. 

what are, 69. 
Wishing, worst of employments, 

132. 
Wit, 310. 

a miracle instead of, 2. 

brevity is the soul of, 63. 

his whole, in a jest, 225. 

in a man, 293. 

in the very first line, 208. 

invites you, 248. 

is nature to advantage dressed, 
236. 

no room for, 177. 

plentiful lack of, 257. 

shy of using- it, 330. 

that can creep, 262. 

too fine point to, 258. 

too proud for a, 133. 

true. 236. 

was more than man, 293 (note). 

with dunces, 124. 
Witch, stir a, 19. 

the world, 185. 
Witchery of the soft blue sky, 294. 
Witching time of night, 84. 
With tears and laughter, 330. 
Withering on the virgin thorn, 129. 
Withers are unwrung, 161. 
Without thee I cannot live, 1. 

thee 1 dare not die. 1. 
Witnesses, a cloud of, 86. 
Wit's a feather. 149. 

end. at their, 124. 
Wits, drink made, 236. 

gloriously offend, 216. 

great, jump, 171. 

keen encounter of our, 132. 

to madness near allied, 150 (n.), 
216. 
Witty and so wise, 330. 

as Horatius Flaccus, 330. 

only in myself, 187. 
Woe, a man of, 219. 

another's, 225. 

a tear can claim, 134. 

doth tread upon another's heel, 
330. 

heritage of, 181. 

life is protracted, 206. 

luxury of, 214. 



Woe succeeds a woe, 330. 

teach me to feel another's, 225. 

trappings and the suits of, 247. 

truth denies all eloquence to, 
131. 
Woes cluster, 330. 

rare are solitary, 330. 
Wolf dwell with the lamb, 198. 
Wolfe from the door, 330. 
Wolfish den, 330. 
Woman, a contentious, 93. 

a perfect, 252. 

an excellent thing in, 137. 

and therefore to be won, 40. 

how divine a thing, 330. 

I hate a dumpy, 124. 

in her first passion, 331. 

in our hours of ease, 17. 

in this humour wooed, 331. 

is at heart a rake, 136. 

lovely, 18. 

loves her lover, 330. 

moved, 157. 

nobly planned, 252. 

O, I could play the, 59. 

or an epitaph, 92. 

scornecl, no fury like a, 176. 

still take an elder, 130. 

stoops to folly, 154. 

that deliberates, 331. 

that seduces all mankind, 331. 

thy name is frailty, 157. 

who deliberates is lost, 112. 

will or wont, 329. 

with mine eyes, 59. 
Womanhood and childhood meet, 

64. 
Womankind, faith in, 85. 
Woman's at best a contradiction, 
93. 

love, paths to, 255. 

will, stem the torrent of a, 319. 

will turns the current, 100. 
"Womb of morning dew, 196. 

of pia mater. 253. 
Women pardoned all except her face. 
331. 

passing the love of, 213. 

these fell-tale, 20. 

though we scorn and flout ''em, 
331. 



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INDEX. 



Women wish to be who love their 

lords, 172. 
Women's weapons, 331. 
Wonder grew, that one small head, 
24. 

how the devil they got there, 15. 

of an hour, 312. 

of his, made religion, 331. 

of our stage, 39. 
Wonderful, most wonderful, 331. 
Won't, if she, 319, 329. 
Woodcocks, springes to catch, 303. 
Wood, impulse from a vernal, 192. 
Woodnotes, native, 324. 
Woods, in the pathless, 256. 

senators of mighty, 172, 287. 

stoic of the, 306. 
Wool, all cry and no, 12. 
Word at random, 289. 

for teaching me that, 195. 

no man relies on, 181 . 

of Caesar against the world, 68. j 

of promise, 127. 

suit the action to the, 3. 

to throw at a dog, 119. 
Worde cousin to the dede, 316. 
Words are for women, 315 (note). 

are like leaves, 160, 

are men's daughters, 315. 

are things, 193. 

are wise men's counters, 331. 

are women, 315 (note). 

came first, 331. 

familiar as household, 1 85. 

«ive sorrow, 164. 

immodest admit of no defence, 
110. 

move slow, 11. 

no, can paint, 331. 

of learned length, 24. 

ten low, 314. 

that Bacon spoke, 331. 

that burn, 64. 

thou hast spoken, 203. 

words, words, 331. 
Work of faith, 202. 

who first invented, 182. 
Works, these are thy glorious, 246. 
World, a good deed in a naughty, 
70. 

asre of the, 117. 



World all a fleeting show, 290. 

and its dread laugh, 331. 

and love were young, 190. 

architecture of, 24. 

bleak, 178. 

brought death into the, 160. 

can never fill, 2. 

children of this, 82. 

fever of the, 306. 

foremost man of the, 156. 

forgetting, by the world forgot, 
49. 

full of briers, 63. 

gain the whole, 299. 

grew pale, 5. 

how the, wags, 139. 

I have not loved the, 332. 

I hold the world but as the, 304. 

in thy ever busy mart, 332. 

is given to lying, 291. 

its veterans rewards, 7. 

knows nothing of its greatest 
men, 224. 

lash the rascals naked through 
the, 269. 

let the, slide, 109. 

light of the, 84. 

majestic, 38. 

must be peopled, 332. 

ne'er saw, 230. 

of happy days, 132. 

of ill-favoured faults, 148. 

of sighs, 248. 

peace to be found in the, 249. 

pendent, 86. 

respect upon the, 273. 

round the habitable, 149. 

so stands the statue that en- 
chants the, 39. 

stood against the, 68. 

sudden visitations daze the, 9. 

this bleak, 178. 

this wretched, 100. 

to me, all the, 332. 

too much with us, 332. 

uses of this, 70. 

wags, 139. 

wanted many an idle song, 33 1. 

was all before them, 265. 

was not worthy of, 332. 

witch the, 185. 



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INDEX. 



41 9 



World without a sun. 297. 

worship of the. 5.5 -J. 
World's a stage. 30*. 

mine oyster. 243. 

Worldly wise, 58. 
Worlds exhausted, 75. 

so many. 297. 

wreck of matter and the crash 
of. 97. 
Worm beneath the sod. 552. 

darkness and the. 222. 

dieth not. 552. 

i' the bud. 77. 

is your only emperor, 332. 

smallest will turn. 297. 

that hath eat of a king'. 33^. 

the spirit of. 332. 

who needlesslv sets foot upon a. 
159. 
Worse appear the better reason, 46. 

for wear, 175. 
Worship God. he says, 552. 

too foil to. 118." 
Worst-natured muse, 45. 
Worth by poverty depressed. 296. 

hidden. 122.' 

in anything'. 21. 

makes the man. 265. 

sad relic of departed, 271. 
Worthy man my foe, 101. 
Would I thy charming- legend, 555. 

I were dead now. 552. 

that I were dead. 555. 
Wouldst have me paint. 333. 
Wound, he jests at scars that never 

felt a, 285. 
Wounded snake, like a. 11. 

spirit. 302. 
Woven paces. 210. 
Wrack, blow wind, come, 117. 
Wranglers, set imprisoned, free. 288. 
Wrath, nursing her. to keep it warm. 
65. 

soft answer turneth away. 20. 

sun go down upon. 19. 
Wreathed smiles, 267. 
Wreck of matter, 97. 
Wretch, sharp-looking, 218. 
Wretches hang that jurymen may 
dine, 117. 

poor, naked, 250. 



Wrinkled care derides. 88. 
Writ, and what is. is writ, 333. 
Write and read comes by nature, 
156. 

well hereafter, 333. 

with ease, 129. 
Writer, pen of a ready, 251. 
Writing*, an exact man, 270. 

or m judging ill, 333. 
Written, above that which is, 333. 
Wrong*, all his life been in the. 333, 

always in the. 155. 

both in the. 555. 

condemn the. 274. 

he can't be, 336. 

on the throne. 520. 

sow by the ear, 127. 

they ne'er pardon who. 156. 

treasures up a. 520. 
Wrongs can rouse to vengeance, 333. 

unredressed. 193. 
Wrote to live, 335. 
Wroth with one we love. 216. 
Wry-necked fife. 150. 
Wut, 51 0. 

Yarn, mingled, 206. 
Ye critics, say, 335. 

freeborn sons. 355. 

mariners of England. 56. 

who listen with credulity. 98. 
Year, starry girdle of the, 304. 
Years, dim with the mist of. 229. 

following years, 305. 

vale of, 322. 
Y^ellow to the jaundiced eye, 139. 
Yesterday come back. 335. 
Yesterdays, cheerful. 78. 

have lighted fools. 70. 
Yet we trust. 335. 
Yield, courage never to. or submit. 

' 12. 
Yielding marble, 335. 
Yoke, part of Flanders hath received 

our, 151. 
Yorick. alas, poor. 149. 
You beat your pate, 248. 

have displaced the mirth. 4. 
Y'ou'll in your girls again. 59. 
Young, and now am old, 275, 

men's vision, 122 



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INDEX. 



Young, spurned by the, 322. 

to be was heaven, 51. 
Youth, gives to her mind what he 
steals from her, 227. 

home-keeping, 183. 

hot, 334. 

looks on life as gold, 335. 

of frolics, 7. 

of labour, with an age of ease, 7. 

of nations, ingenuous, 335. 

of the realm, 246. 

on the prow, 256. 

remember thy Creator, 97. 

riband in the cap of, 71. 

rose of, 335. 

that fired the Ephesian dome, 
133. 



Youth, thoughtless, 335. 

waneth by encreasing, 167. 

younger, 335. 
Yron courage, 335. 

Zeal, build altars in, 336. 

do that in our, calmer moments 
afraid to answer, 336. 

lacks devotion, 336. 

of God, 201. 
Zealand, New, traveller from, 319. | 
Zealots, graceless, 336. 
Zealously affected in good thing, 

336. 
Zephyr gently olows, 11. 
Zigzag manuscript, 161. 



FINIS. 



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